“He’d probably say that he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognise that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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