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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
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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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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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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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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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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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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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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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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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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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
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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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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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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
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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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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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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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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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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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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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