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1. "Stebuklas, kai ji patiri, niekuomet nera pilnas, tik atmintis padaro ji tokiu." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
2. "A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
3. "Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
4. "The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
5. "A hospital alone shows what war is." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
6. "Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
7. "It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
8. "The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
9. "We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
10. "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." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
11. "Clovek nedelá vždycky, co je správné, synu," rekl. "Dokonce ani když to ví. V tom nekdy bývá kouzlo života. Chápeš?" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
12. "Ma mõtlesin, et elame konservide ajastul.''''Konservide? Kuidas nii?''Ravic osutas ajalehtedele. ''Meil pole enam tarvis mõtelda. Kõik on ette mõeldud, ette mälutud, ette tunnetatud. Konservid. Jääb üle ainult avada. Kolm korda päevas koju kätte toimetatud. Midagi pole enam tarvis ise külvata, kasvatada, pole tarvis küsimuste, kahtluste ja igatsuste tulel keeta. Konservid." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
13. "Covek gubi hrabrost. Veruje da se može navici na razocaranja. To nije tacno. Ona svaki put sve više bole tako da se covek uplaši. To je kao da se svaki put više opece. I svaki put sporije zarasta. Ne želim da se još koji put opecem." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
14. "Elértük már az oltalmazó tartalékállásokat. Szeretnénk keresztülmászni rajtuk és eltunni – s most vissza kell fordulni, újra belé a borzalomba. Ha nem volnánk automaták ebben a pillanatban, fekve maradnánk, halálos fáradtan, akarattalanul. De ismét elorevonszolnak. Akarattalanul és mégis orülten, vadul és dühöngve, ölni akarunk, mert azok ott most a mi halálos ellenségeink. Puskáik és gránátjaik ellenünk irányulnak. Ha mi nem semmisítjük meg oket, ok semmisítenek meg bennünket." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
15. "One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
16. "Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
17. "Perhaps there is really nothing else when everything is falling to pieces, I think, except this bit of togetherness and even that is a sweet deception, for when someone else really needs you you cannot follow him or stand by him. I have noticed that often enough in the war when I looked into the face of a dead comrade. Each one of us has his own death and must suffer it alone; no one can help him then." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
18. "Now we would wander around like strangers in those landscapes of our youth. We have been consumed in the fires of reality, we perceive differences only in the way tradesmen do, and we see necessities like butchers. We are free of care no longer – we are terrifying indifferent. We might be present in that world, but would we be alive in it? We are like children who have been abandoned and we are as experienced as old men, we are coarse, unhappy and superficial – I think that we are lost" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
19. "Ljubav nije jezero u kome se uvek može ogledati... ona ima plimu i oseku i olupine i potonule gradove i bure i kovcege sa zlatom i bisere… ali biseri su duboko..." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
20. "The train goes slowly. From time to time it stops, so that the dead can be taken off. It stops a lot." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
21. "he begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
22. "Ja mis teil südamel ka poleks – ärge pidage seda liiga tähtsaks. Vähe on asju, mis kauaks tähtsaks jäävad." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
23. "Üksindus – elu igavene refrään. See ei olnud ei pahem ega parem kui mõnigi muu asi. Sellest räägiti liiga palju. Inimene on alati – ja mitte iial – üksi." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
24. "This dead man is bound up with my life, therefore I must do everything, promise everything in order to save myself; I swear blindly that I mean to live only for his sake and his family, with wet lips I try to placate him--and deep down in me lies the hope that I may buy myself off in this way and perhaps even get out of this; it is a little stratagem: if only I am allowed to escape, then I will see to it. So I open the book and read slowly:--Gerard Duval, compositor.With the dead man's pencil write the address on an envelope, then swiftly thrust everything back into his tunic.I have killed the printer, Gerard Duval. I must be a printer, I think confusedly, be a printer, printer..." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
25. "The things here are stronger--the things that differentiate us from one another are too powerful. The common interest is no longer decisive. It has broken up already and given place to the interest of the individual. Now and then something still will shine through from that other time when we all wore the same rig, but already it is dwindled and dim. These others here are still our comrades and yet our comrades no longer--that is what is so sad. All else went west in the war, but comradeship we did believe in; now only to find that what death could not do, life is achieving; it is driving us asunder." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
26. "A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
27. "Unspoiled by education, frank and unsuspecting as young an8imals, they came up to school from their meadows, their games, and their dreams. The simple law of life was alone valid for them; the most vital, the most forceful among them was leader; the rest followed him. But little by little, with the weekly portions of tuition, another, artificial set of values was foisted upon them: he who knew his lesson best was termed excellent and ranked foremost, and the rest must emulate him. Little wonder, indeed, if the more vital of them resist it! But they have to knuckle under, for the ideal of the school is the good scholar.--But what an ideal! What ever came of the good scholars in the world?--In the hothouse of the school they do enjoy a short semblance of life, but only the more surely to sink back afterward into mediocrity and insignificance. The world has been bettered only by the bad scholars." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
28. "A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
29. "The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
30. "I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western windows with its villages, their thatched roofs like caps, pulled over the white-washed, half-timbered houses, its corn-fields, gleaming like mother-of-pearl in the slanting light, its orchards, its barns and old lime trees. The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. The train stamps and stamps onward. I stand at the window and hold on to the frame. These names mark the boundaries of my youth." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
31. "... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
32. "Mes gavome dovanu ugni, nes mumyse buvo kažkas dieviško. O dabar mes slepiame ja, nes žudome savyje ta dieviška dalelyte." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
33. "We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
34. "Jeigu butu kur nors pasaulyje tokia vieta, kur tikrai viena valanda per visus metus butu galima gauti ka nors valgomo, jis kaip tik šia valanda, tarsi kokio ikvepimo genamas, užsidetu kepure, išeitu, nueitu tiesiai lyg pagal kompasa ten, kur yra valgis, ir ji surastu. <...> Tai yra kažkokia misle, galima pamanyti, kad jis iš žemes iškasa. Didžiausias jo laimejimas buvo keturios dežes omaru." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
35. "Osjecao sam se trom i spor i mrzio sam sebe što Heleni ne mogu bolje da pokažem koliko je volim ti tom trenutku. Morala je misliti da oklijevam zato što je ne želim, a ne zato što je toliko mnogo želim." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
36. "Sweet dreams though the guns are booming." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
37. "... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
38. "Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
39. "Our knowledge of life is limited to death" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
40. "Kes suudab elada, ilma et unustaks? Aga kes suudab küllalt unustada? Mälestuste šlakk, mis südant rebestab. Alles siis, kui sul enam midagi ei ole, mille nimel elada, oled vaba." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
41. "Hodha syte perjashta nga varrezat e lagura prej shiut dhe pashe guret e varreve, qe ishin mbuluar me gjethe te venitura dhe te felliqura. Mjegulla, porsi nje kafshe e zberdhulet, ua kish thithur gjate nates lengun e gjelber gjetheve te pemeve; tani ato vareshin te mekura e te nemitura neper dege; cdo gulsh ere, sado i lehte, kepuste nga nje dhe e rrezonte ngadale ose e fluturonte tutje... Dhe une, ashtu papritur e pakujtuar, si nje te therur te mprehte e mizore, e ndjeva per here te pare qe po afrohej ndarja, qe ajo po behej e vertete, po aq e vertete sa vjeshta, e cila ish zvarritur fshehurazi neper ato dege pemesh atje perjashta dhe kish lene pas gjurmet e saj te verdha." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
42. "I lumturi eshte nje manekin i ndjenjes se jetes. Ai i ben vetem paraden e modes, por nuk e zoteron. Drita nuk shkelqen ne drite; ajo shkelqen ne erresire. Gezuar per erresiren! Kush ka ndenjur nje here ne mes te shtrengates, atij s'i hyn me ne pune nje makine e vogel elektrizimi. Mallkuar qofte shtrengata! Bekuar qofte kjo cikez jete qe kemi! Dhe sepse e dashurojme, s'duam ta japim me kamate! Duam ta shkaterrojme! Pini, djema! Ka yje qe ndricojne cdo nate, megjithese kane plasur para dhjete mije vjetesh drite! Pini, sa eshte koha!" ~ Erich Maria Remarque
43. "- Tez kiedys to pani czula? - zapytal.Milczala przez chwile.-Owszem, ale nie tak. Inaczej. Kiedy calymi dniami nie mówilam do nikogo, a nocami spacerowalam, i wszedzie byli ludzie, którzy mieli gdzies swoje miejsce, którzy dokads chodzili, mieli gdzies swój dom. Tylko ja nie. Wtedy wszystko powoli stawalo sie nierzeczywiste, jakbym sie utopila i szla po dnie przez jakies obce podwodne miasto..." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
44. "Nie kazdy ma takie zycie, zeby nadawalo sie na dom dla niego, który bedzie mógl dekorowac coraz bogatszymi meblami wspomnien. Niektórzy mieszkaja w hotelach, w niejednym hotelu. Lata zatrzaskuja sie za nimi jak drzwi hoteli - i jedyne, co im pozostaje, to odrobina odwagi, ale nikt ich nie zaluje." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
45. "My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
46. "The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
47. "When he presses himself to the earth, long and violently, when he urges himself deep into it with his face and his limbs, under fire and with the fear of death upon him, then the earth is his only friend, his brother, he groans out his terror and screams into its silence and safety, the earth absorbs it all and gives him another ten seconds of life, ten seconds to run, then takes hold of him again - sometimes for ever." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
48. "Iga elatud päev tähendab üks päev vähem olemasolu." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
49. "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." ~ Erich Maria Remarque
50. "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
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