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"Ich weiß, dass es nicht gesehen wird. Wir haben gesehen, dass es einen neuen Krieg gegeben hat. Aber das ist ein Grund eben weiter daran zu glauben. Denn was bleibt, wenn wir nicht daran glauben, dass ein Fortschritt möglich ist? Was bleibt?"
Erich Maria Remarque, 1962
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Basically he said, he would never stop writing though his messages had been ignored all the years. You have to continue your work no matter what and don't stop believing. What's left, if you lost all hope?
#okay ... I am out for today#I just watched an old interview with the german author Remarque and those last lines hit me hard#so beautiful... touching and true#you always have to believe...#Q__Q#erich maria remarque#all quite on the western front#im westen nichts neues#german stuff#german literature#literature#... why is hun' still on a business trip... why... qq#okay... I am sorry... he gave up the german citizenship#he was stateless for a while and from 1947 until his death 1970 he had the citizenship of the usa#though he spent his last years in switzerland#german novelist
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