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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.
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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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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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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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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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
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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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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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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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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
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... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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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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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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We were all at once terribly alone and alone we must see it through.
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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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Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
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Good or ill, life is life you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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