24 Jun 2023 9:36 am
Happy birthday to Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), German novelist and author of All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) -- perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with the horrors of World War I. 
"Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel."
"Heaven has no favorites."
"A hospital alone shows what war is."
"We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth."
"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently slay one another."
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