“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
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“Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“The things men did or felt they had to do.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”
Source: The Black Obelisk
“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
Source: Three Comrades
Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Context: I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
“Why does a man live?
-In order to think about it…”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front