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• We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

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  Love Life, Pieces, World

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

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  Pain, Men, Agony

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• My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

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  Shame, Rage, Ought

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• The war has ruined us for everything.

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  War, Ruined

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

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  Lying, Coffins, Protect

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.52, Random House

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• 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.

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  War, Simple, Should Have

  Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel, Joseph Roth (2004). “All quiet on the western front”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

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  Soldier, Chance, Thousand

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.77, Random House

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• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

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  War, Blow, Men

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• We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

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  Animal, Soldier, March

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.89, Infobase Publishing

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• He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

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  Sleep, Army, Expression

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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

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  War, Losing, Salute

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.32, Random House

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• Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without.

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  Fire, Clay, Fields

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

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  Gone, Impatience, Filled

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.115, Random House

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• Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

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  Moving, Eye, Circles

  Erich Maria Remarque (1997). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

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  Common, Possibility, Graves

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

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• The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

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  Ideas, Mind, Quiet

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

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  Powerful, Lying, Book

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.127, Random House

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• I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

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  Adventure, Blood, Firsts

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.

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  Reality, People, Feelings

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.

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  Waiting, Going Away, Littles

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• The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably bear it until the end of my days; I am no phoenix; resurrection is not for me; I have tried to fly but I am tumbling like a dazzled, awkward rooster back to earth, back behind the barbed wires.

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  Names, Phoenix, Miracle

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• Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

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  Brain

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

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  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

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  Rain, School, Fire

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• ... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

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  Clothes, Comforting, Sometimes

  Erich Maria Remarque (2014). “Heaven Has No Favorites: A Novel”, p.59, Random House

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