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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
Erich Maria Remarque
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Erich Maria Remarque
Age: 72 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 22
Died: 1970
Died: September 25
Novelist
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Vienna
Austria
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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
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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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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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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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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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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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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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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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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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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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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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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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.
Erich Maria Remarque
The things men did or felt they had to do.
Erich Maria Remarque
-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
Erich Maria Remarque
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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