"If things went according to the death notices, man would be absolutely perfect. There you find only first-class fathers, immaculate husbands, model children, unselfish, self-sacrificing mothers, grandparents mourned by all, businessmen in contrast with whom Francis of Assisi would seem an infinite egoist, generals dripping with kindness, humane prosecuting attorneys, almost holy munitions makers — in short, the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels without one's having been aware of it."
Erich Maria Remarque, in his novel, The Black Obelisk (1956)
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