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“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
“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
Erich Maria Remarque
“you may turn into an archangel, a fool or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.” Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph
Erich Maria Remarque
“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
Erich Maria Remarque
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.” Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph
Erich Maria Remarque
“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
Erich Maria Remarque
“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
Erich Maria Remarque
“all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

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