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All Quiet on the Western Front
Vocabulary– Chapter 7
1. “We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peacetime, would be out of place here” (Remarque 139).
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2. “If it were possible for us to save them, then it would be seen how much we cared--we would have a shot at it though we went under ourselves; for we can be damned quixotic when we like; fear we do not know much about--terror of death, yes; but that is a different matter, that is physical” (139).
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3. “Then Leer and Tjaden stroll up; they look at the poster and immediately the conversation becomes smutty” (143).
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4. “The houses in which we are billeted lie near the canal” (143).
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5. “Close above me are her bewildering eyes, the soft brown of her skin and her red lips” (148).
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6. “After my leave I have to report for a course of training to a camp on the moors” (151).
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7. “They go off and wave once or twice. Their figures dwindle” (153).
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8. “In the distance, the soft, blue silhouette of the mountain ranges begins to appear” (154)
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9. “Here we have often sat—how long ago it is—we have passed over this bridge and breathed the cool acid sell of the stagnant water; we have leaned over the still water on this side of the lock, where the green creepers and weeds hang from the piles of the bridge;—and on hot days we rejoiced in the spouting foam on the other side of the lock and told tales about our school-teachers” (156).
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10. “Should I tell her how we once found three enemy trenches with their garrison all stiff as though stricken with apoplexy?” (161).
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11. “Before my mother’s tremulous anxiety I recover my composure” (161).
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12. “The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and know when I go back to the front that the war will sink down and be drowned utterly in the great home-coming tide, know that it will be past forever, and not gnaw us continually, that it will have no but an outward power over us” (172).
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