You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminalโno one will see it. But when a button is missingโeveryone sees that.
Erich Maria RemarqueNo matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
Erich Maria RemarqueTo me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.
Erich Maria RemarqueI, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
Erich Maria Remarque