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Quotation from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
“The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.”
All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter I, trans. A. W. Wheen
Paul explains how the schoolmasters and elders who urged them to war lost their authority at the first experience of the front.
Citation: "The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces." — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter I, trans. A. W. Wheen. (id all-quiet-on-the-western-front-q2)
