If they don’t see happiness in the picture, at least they’ll see the black. Chris Marker, Sans Soleil
“He had collapsed like a rotten tree.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“It was not any recognition of their beauty and their significance that attracted us, but the communion, the feeling of a comradeship with the things and events of our existence, which cut us off and made the world of our parents a thing incomprehensible to us—for then we surrendered ourselves to events and were lost in them, and the least little thing was enough to carry us down the stream of eternity.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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