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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about 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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
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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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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 were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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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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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.
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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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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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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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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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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