„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.
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„Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre The Night in Lisbon
Source: The Night in Lisbon
„It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
„We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
„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
„It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by short people. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
„We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.“
— 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.
„Keep things at arm's length… If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
„I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
„We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, livre All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
