Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and … - Erich Maria Remarque

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Erich Maria Remarque

Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. It falls on our heads and on the heads of the dead up the line, on the body of the little recruit with the wound that is so much too big for his hip; it falls on Kemmerich's grave; it falls in our hearts.

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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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