Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front

Book page: remarque-all-quiet

From: Quotes batch 20

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Concept

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing from ourselves, from our life.” (p. 18)

Behavior

“The front is a cage in which we must wait nervously for whatever happens. We lie under the network of arching shells.” (p. 101)

Game Theory

“A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.” (p. 193)

Cognition

“Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;—when we are resting they are good; under fire they are dead.” (p. 271)

Memory

“They are past, they are a world that is gone… but they are not lost, they are only pushed back, for the moment they are unattainable.” (p. 121)