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“I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.” quote by Erich Maria Remarque — Download Open image

““I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.””

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“Besides,” continued Gottfried, “you’re coming now to the time when the difference between a bourgeois and a cavalier begins to show. A bourgeois always gets less attentive the longer he knows a woman. A cavalier, always more attentive.” He made an extended gesture. “With all this you can become an absolutely staggering cavalier.” I laughed. “That is all fine, Gottfried,”…

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“Shortly after the war Valentin had come into a little money, and had been drinking it ever since. He considered it his duty to celebrate his good luck in having come out alive. It was nothing to him that that was now several years ago. One could never celebrate it enough, he used to explain. He was one of those…

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You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

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