Paul Bäumer: And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
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Paul Bäumer: War isn't the way it looks back here.
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Schoolmaster: [to his students] You are the life of the Fatherland! You are the iron men of Germany!
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Katczinsky: [entering and seeing the new recruits] What is this?
Tjaden: [sarcastically] Volunteers for the future general's staff.
Katczinsky: [to the recruits] Oh, sometime I'm gonna take one of you volunteers apart and find out what makes you leave school and join the army. At ease. This is no parade ground.
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Katczinsky: [to Detering, Westhus, and Tjaden] I wish you three would get bumped off. I'm tired of feeding you for nothing.
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