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Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”
“Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.”
“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”
“That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”
“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.”
“Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.”
“Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.”
“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
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