"A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world."

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About Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front. His antiwar writing made him one of the most influential literary voices on World War I.

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