"And even if these scenes from our youth……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"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 passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not."
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Erich Maria Remarque
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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