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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.

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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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The things men did or felt they had to do.
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
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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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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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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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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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