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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

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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Screenwriter
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Vienna
Austria
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Hospitals
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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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 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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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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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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The war has ruined us for everything.
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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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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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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
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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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It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
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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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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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A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.
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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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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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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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