''I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.'' These are the thoughts of a young veteran of World War I, named Paul Baumer. It i ....