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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
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.
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.
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.
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.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
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.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
