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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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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5
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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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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
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I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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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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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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We want to live at any price so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
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