Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

• No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

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• Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death.

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

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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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• 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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• Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

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• Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

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• empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther – the machine-gun is covering the square.

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• The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

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• They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

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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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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

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• The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

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Birth:	22nd June, 1898
Death:	25th September, 1970
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Soldier, Teacher

About

Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was a German novelist, soldier, and teacher who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front is about German soldiers in the First World War, which was also made into an Oscar-winning movie. During World War I, he was conscripted into the army at the age of 18. After the war he continued his teacher training and worked from 1 August 1919 as a primary school teacher in Lohne. He wrote several novels include: The Dream Room, Station at the Horizon, The Road Back, Three Comrades,  Flotsam, Arch of Triumph, Spark of Life, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, The Black Obelisk, Heaven Has No Favorites, The Night in Lisbon, The Promised Land, and Shadows in Paradise.

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