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Erich Maria Remarque

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Alone, Hospital, Shows

Erich Maria Remarque

A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it’s gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won’t it always stay the same? Won’t it stay with me as long as I live?

Erich Maria Remarque

…and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

life, love, man

Erich Maria Remarque

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

feelings, guilt, love, relationships

Erich Maria Remarque

He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Again and again one had to abandon them or they were taken away. One should be ready to leave every day. That was the reason he had lived alone— when one was on the move one should not have anything that could bind one. Nothing that could stir the heart. The adventure— but nothing more.

adventure, aloof, detached, life, not-settling, on-the-go, things, uncertainty

Erich Maria Remarque

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

faith, meaning, point

Erich Maria Remarque

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end.

Erich Maria Remarque

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

bond, chance, loneliness

Erich Maria Remarque

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

confusion, sudden, suddenly

Erich Maria Remarque

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

bourgeois-life, lost-generation, love, security, war

Erich Maria Remarque

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

all, chance, front, quiet, soldier, soldiers, western

Erich Maria Remarque

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

authority, morals