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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.

Erich Maria Remarque

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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Vienna
Austria
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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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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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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
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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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On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
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We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
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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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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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