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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
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.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
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.
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.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.