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Pity is the most useless article in the world. [...] It's the reverse side of gloating, you ought to know that.

— Erich Maria Remarque Three Comrades (1936)

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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.

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

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A hospital alone shows what war is.

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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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