Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades – words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
– Erich Maria Remarque
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- the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory. – Erich Maria Remarque
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