“All quiet on the western front”....the final scene where the soldier reaches for the butterfly always stayed with me..
What you do not know is that Remarque, a man impoverished by the Great War, and his wife had triplets just 2 years after the war. Remarque fainted after the second baby was born, and the doctor commented after the third one was born: "That last Remarque was uncalled for."
“.. he fell on a day so still the General Staff noted in it’s diary “All quiet on the Western Front’’. From the novel.