"We were eighteen and had begun to love……" — Erich Maria Remarque
"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 explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5"
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Erich Maria Remarque
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109 Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
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