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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
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.
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.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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.
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.
