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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

— Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

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A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

A hospital alone shows what war is.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers — we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

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Mortality is man's invention; not in the logic of life.

Three Comrades (1936)

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