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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
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.
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.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
