Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades Quotes
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.
There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else