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Quotation from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
“We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.”
All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter I, trans. A. W. Wheen
Reacting to Kantorek's letter praising them as the Iron Youth, Paul says the war has already made them old.
Citation: "We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk." — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter I, trans. A. W. Wheen. (id all-quiet-on-the-western-front-q3)
