Meredith Dees’s Reviews > All Quiet on the Western Front > Status Update

“All other expressions lie in a winters sleep, life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death”

“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the colored backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back the lost eagerness of my youth.”