“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 , book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

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