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“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

Quote by Erich Maria Remarque

Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

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Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a poignant narrative that follows the life of a young German soldier on the Western Front during World War I. The story delves into the harsh realities of war, the disillusionment of youth, and the physical and psychological toll it takes on the characters. The novel is renowned for its raw and unflinching portrayal of the war's impact on the soldiers and is considered a classic in war literature. more

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Erich Maria Remarque

German author best known for his novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front', which vividly portrays the horrors of World War I. His works are characterized by a realistic style and have had a profound impact on literature. more

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“The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.”

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“Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.”

Thinking Way Years Long Young Youth Thousand Hundred Twenties Folks Iron Long Ago

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.”

Feels Stills Water Fronts Mysterious Far Away Centre Vortex Whirlpools Still Waters

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“The war has ruined us for everything.”

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.”

Faces Moving Form Darkness Bird Sticks Fingers Rounds Fence Hook Wire Eyebrows Mesh Storks

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“Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.”

Common Possibility Graves Hospitals Trenches

Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

“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.”

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Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”

Believe May Has Beens Stills Matter Might Hours Chance Alive Thousand Ten Luck Soldier Proof Bombs Atoms Might Have Been

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

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Want Needs Feels Hard Home Hard Work Coming Home Worth It

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