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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
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.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
