Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Book: All Quiet on the Western Front Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth. Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living. Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! Anything you can settle with money is cheap. It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for. we have so much to say, and we shall never say it. Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. 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. With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. 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. My Video: Erich Maria Remarque Quotes My Audio:

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