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• I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

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  Thinking, World, Want

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• 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.

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  Missing, Buttons, Criminals

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• What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

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  Skins, Comfort, Someone You Love

  Erich Maria Remarque (2014). “The Night in Lisbon: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

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  Peace, War, Hospitality

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

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  Thinking, Done, Might

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Three Comrades: A Novel”, p.120, Random House

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• Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

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  Youth, Adornment

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Flotsam: A Novel”, p.77, Random House

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• Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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  Littles, Beans, Heard

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

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• No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

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  Veterans Day, Believe, Soldier

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

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• Our knowledge of life is limited to death

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  Life Is

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House

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• Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

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  Mirrors, World

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Three Comrades: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

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• 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, innocently slay one another.

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  Years, Silence, Sorrow

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.194, Random House

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• We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. 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, Storm, Fleeing

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

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• We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

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  Feelings, Would Be, Want

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.104, Random House

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• This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

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  War, Book, Adventure

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.54, Infobase Publishing

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• The things men did or felt they had to do.

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  Men, Felt

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• But 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. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

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  Mother, Men, Hands

  "Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)". Book by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929.

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• Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

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  Jealous, Doe, Chance

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• ... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

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  Mankind, Prize

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• Heaven Has No Favorites

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  Heaven

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.110, Infobase Publishing

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• It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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  Reality, Secret, Desire

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

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  Moving, Eyebrows, Bird

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• Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.

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  Dream, Sweet, Gun

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• We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.

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  Morning, Wall, Eye

  Erich Maria Remarque (1983). “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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• -Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.

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  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

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  War, Giving, Would Be

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