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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.Erich Maria Remarque
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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.Erich Maria Remarque
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal.. It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.Erich Maria Remarque
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To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.Erich Maria Remarque
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There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much elseErich Maria Remarque
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That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.Erich Maria Remarque