Erich Maria Remarque. Arch (№ 66116)

Now the book has become for him a kind of defensive wall, and although the actual protection they give, they still could find some kind of support. They are not helped to live, but saved from despair in an era when the world rolled uncontrollably into the impenetrable darkness of the gloomy abyss. They were not given to despair, and that was enough.