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  • "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. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another."
    - Ch. 10, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without."
    - Ch. 11, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities."
    - Ch. 11, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more."
    - Ch. 11, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "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. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me."
    - Ch. 12, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
    - Ch. 12, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "The woman veered toward Ravic. She walked quickly, but with a peculiar stagger. Ravic first noticed her when she was almost beside him. He saw a pale face, high cheekbones and wide-set eyes. The face was rigid and masklike; it looked hollowed out, and her eyes in the light from the street lamps had an expression of such glassy emptiness that they caught his attention."
    - Ch. 1, Arch of Triumph, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "What is still left of Number 2 Platoon is quartered in a stretch of battered trench behind the line, and most of them are dozing."
    - Prologue, The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "Roads stretch far through the landscape, the villages lie in a grey light; trees rustle, leaves are falling, falling."
    - Part 1, The Road Back, Erich Maria Remarque

  • "You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that."
    - Erich Maria Remarque

  • "We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace."
    - Ch. 1, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

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