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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
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We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
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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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Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.
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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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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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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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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Erich Maria Remarque
Born:
June 22, 1898
Died:
September 25, 1970
(aged 72)
Bio:
Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war.
Known for:
Three Comrades (1936)
Arch of Triumph (1945)
The Road Back (1931)
The Black Obelisk (1956)
The Night in Lisbon (1962)
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