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Heaven Has No Favorites
All Quiet on the Western Front.
A hospital alone shows what war is.
The war has ruined us for everything.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances.
Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.
Our knowledge of life is limited to death
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
The things men did or felt they had to do.
Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.
-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.
What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.
You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
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.
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.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.