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Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Erich Maria Remarque quotes about memories

Deutsch Writer June 22, 1898 – September 25, 1970

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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not. Erich Maria Remarque
One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they... Erich Maria Remarque
I am thinking of those strange moments when unexpectedly a kind of second sight like a deceptive memory seems suddenly to give us glimpses of many earlier lives. Erich Maria Remarque
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory. Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only..."
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And..."
Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness. Erich Maria Remarque

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