Erich Maria Remarque. The promised land (№ 95361)

There will always be a new war?
- Because the memory of the fake memories, ' I said. Is a sieve which will pass into oblivion and all the terrible, turning the past into a continuous adventure. In memory-each character. About the war have the right to tell only who they passed it to the end. But somehow they just silenced forever.
Ravitch shook his head.
Just a person does not feel others ' pain, he said. - That's the point. And someone else's death doesn't feel. It takes quite some time, and he remembers only one thing: how he survived.