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“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“I don’t want to get old.”
“You won’t get old. Life will pass over your face, that will be all, and it will become more beautiful. One is old only when one no longer feels.”
“No. When one no longer loves.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk