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Erich Maria Remarque

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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
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Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.
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Once you know what you're worth, you won't settle for anything less.
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Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew bef...
ERICH FROMM
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiv...
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entit...
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and e...
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despe...
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The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their ...
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...
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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
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Sometimes I amaze even myself.
ERICH SEGAL
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, whic...
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you becaus...
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel ma...
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense l...
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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either...
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not underst...
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most ...
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Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be n...
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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a...
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The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.
ERICH LEINSDORF
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
ERICH FROMM
Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
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Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the pri...
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A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...
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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
ERICH SEGAL
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist...
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If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what th...
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Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
ERICH HONECKER
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put throu...
ERICH HOEBER
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I lo...
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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
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Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational p...
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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checke...
ERICH SEGAL
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
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As we can.
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