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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
Erich Maria Remarque
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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
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Vienna
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.
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The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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