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Quotation from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”

Erich Maria Remarque (spoken by Narrator (final paragraph))

All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter XII, trans. A. W. Wheen

A new voice reports Paul's death and gives the book its title.

Citation: "He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front." — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter XII, trans. A. W. Wheen. (id all-quiet-on-the-western-front-q8)

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