Author of quotes: Erich Maria Remarque

Being liked by many and not being boring to read is a recipe for success.

In Germany, successful does not always mean quality. In America, there is a different attitude towards success. There, success does not go against quality, but can be one with it.

- You will be remembered as an anti-war writer, as a pacifist. Without a doubt, you can be classified as a leftist

World events, people - everything was indifferent compared to the question Why

You wrote sad letters. I hope they were dictated by moments long gone. God made you to bring delight to other people's lives. You must retain this ability. Do not give up. We have only one life, it is short, and some people tried, and often, to take away a little of it from us. There are still years full of blue, and we will never see the end. You have work ahead of you, interesting work, as I heard, and you have always had more courage than a regiment of a regular army. I sincerely wish for you that everything will turn out the way you want it - and if this is not given to you, you will still find it somewhere.

I am already over forty, I learned and relearned a lot, fell under blows and rose again. I am wiser with experience and knowledge filtered through many years, I have become more hardened, more skeptical, more unflappable ... I did not want love and did not believe in it, I did not think that it would come again ... But it came, and all my experience was useless, and knowledge only hurts. And what burns on the fire of feelings better than dry cynicism - is this fuel prepared in the fateful difficult years?

After all, there is nothing left but love. Was that why he was trying to run away from her? And did she not rush after him, overtake him, and cast him down on his face? On the shaky soil of a foreign land, it is much more difficult to get on your feet than on your native land.

Money, what people don't do for the sake of money.

All of them are made of clay and gold. From lies and shocks. Of swindle and shameless truth.

If the inevitable is stronger than you, submit to it.

He knew he would be lost if he spent the night with her. It's like signing a bill of exchange with nothing to cover it. She will come to him again and again, play on what she has already achieved, each time demanding new concessions, yielding nothing on her part, until he is completely in her power.

How beautiful a woman can be even in meanness.

Someone is experimenting on us, but, apparently, the final results have not yet been achieved. No need to complain. Experimental animals should also have professional pride.

- A lot of people die without gaining their minds.