"Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside."
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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A hospital alone shows what war is.
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into…
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The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike…
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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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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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived…
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Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than…
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To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I…
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The war has ruined us for everything.
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like…
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with…
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