I have lived a life that is intoxicating and beautiful...

This collection includes the diary entries of Remarque, which he wrote throughout his life. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century appears in them as an ordinary person — a person experiencing tumultuous romances and dramatic breakups with beloved women, watching in horror the tragedy of Germany obsessed with Nazism in the 1930s, experiencing the disarray of a difficult life in emigration, and the joy of returning home after the war. A person who could make friends and love, and even in the most challenging times, did not lose his unique, slightly sarcastic sense of humor. A person whom neither poverty and obscurity, nor worldwide fame could change…