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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

Erich Maria Remarque

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“now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“it awakened in us a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war — comradeship.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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