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Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Simple
Secret
Important
Erich Maria Remarque
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Museums
Perfect
Erich Maria Remarque
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Dream
Bears
Our Dreams
Erich Maria Remarque
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
― Erich Maria Remarque
Strange
Complicated
Feels
Erich Maria Remarque
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Waiting
Terrible
Erich Maria Remarque
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Rewards
Modesty
Novel
Erich Maria Remarque
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
― Erich Maria Remarque
May
Knows
Erich Maria Remarque
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Memories
Secret
Littles
Erich Maria Remarque
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Brother
Dying
Disease
Erich Maria Remarque
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
― Erich Maria Remarque
World
Moments
Cigarette
Erich Maria Remarque
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Risk
Realizing
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Mirrors
Giving
Behinds
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Men
Arms
Want
Erich Maria Remarque
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque
― Erich Maria Remarque
Matter
Enough
Made
Erich Maria Remarque
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Memories
Thinking
Memory
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Children
Believe
Men
Erich Maria Remarque
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Real
Sadness
Profound
Erich Maria Remarque
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Crazy
Eye
Sky
Erich Maria Remarque
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
― Erich Maria Remarque
Littles
Beans
Heard
Erich Maria Remarque
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.
― Erich Maria Remarque
Generations
World
Way
Erich Maria Remarque