„Personne ne peut t'être plus étranger que la personne que tu as aimée jadis.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Arc de triomphe
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
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Erich Maria Remarque
Date de naissance: 22. juin 1898
Date de décès: 25. septembre 1970
Erich Maria Remarque, né Erich Paul Remark le 22 juin 1898 à Osnabrück et mort le 25 septembre 1970 à Locarno , est un écrivain allemand, naturalisé américain en 1947 après avoir été déchu de sa nationalité allemande par le régime nazi en juillet 1938.
Son livre À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau , un roman pacifiste sur la Première Guerre mondiale, connut, dès sa parution en 1929, un succès mondial retentissant et reste un ouvrage-phare sur le premier conflit mondial. À l'instar de Catherine soldat d'Adrienne Thomas, ce livre fut brûlé lors des autodafés de 1933 en Allemagne. E.M. Remarque s'exila en Suisse, puis aux États-Unis où il obtint sa naturalisation. Wikipedia
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„We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
„The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre The Black Obelisk
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)
„Love should not be polluted with friendship.“
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
„It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
„Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre The Black Obelisk
Source: The Black Obelisk
„Anything you can settle with money is cheap.“
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
„Our knowledge of life is limited to death“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
„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.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
„They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
„We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
„It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Contexte: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
„It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
