Erich Maria Remarque citations

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Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Contexte: I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

Source: Three Comrades

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Source: Three Comrades

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: The Night in Lisbon

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: Flotsam

Source: Three Comrades

Source: Flotsam

Paul after visiting Russian prisoners, Ch. 8
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 4

'Then I can be going home right away,' retorts Tjaden, and we all laugh.
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 9