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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
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Vienna
Austria
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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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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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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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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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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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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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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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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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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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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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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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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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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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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