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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
