“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“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.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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