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From Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
- The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope…
- You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
- We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life.…
- Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a…
- I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my…
- And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
- We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We…
- To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he…
- 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…
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