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The war has ruined us for everything.
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
Austria
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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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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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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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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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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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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 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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