For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Joseph Roth, quote from The Radetzky MarchīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, And everything that had once existed left its traces so that in those days people lived on memories, just as now they live by the capacity to forget quickly and completely.”
Everything that grew took its time in growing and everything that was destroyed took a long time to be forgotten. Close neighbors and casual passers-by alike, when they saw the empty space, remembered the aspect and walls of the vanished house. When fire had eaten away a house from the row of others in a street, the burnt-out space remained long empty. When one of the living had been extinguished another did not at once take his place in order to obliterate him: there was a gap where he had been, and both close and distant witnesses of his demise fell silent whenever they became aware of his gap. “In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died.
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