"(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn."
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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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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The war has ruined us for everything.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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