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Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
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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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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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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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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(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 are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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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 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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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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