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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
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.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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.
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.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
