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More Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.
Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
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.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.
