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Quotation from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter V, trans. A. W. Wheen
After the friends cannot imagine what they would do in peacetime, Albert says the war has ruined them for everything, and Paul agrees.
Citation: "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces." — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter V, trans. A. W. Wheen. (id all-quiet-on-the-western-front-q5)
