"I want that quiet rapture again. I want……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"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 books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait."
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Erich Maria Remarque
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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