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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world and we had to shoot it to pieces.
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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
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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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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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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
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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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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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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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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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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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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness--I belong to them and they to me we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.
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