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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings. — Stefan Zweig

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. — Stefan Zweig

The great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. — Stefan Zweig

One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here. — Stefan Zweig

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living. — Stefan Zweig

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured? — Stefan Zweig

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. — Stefan Zweig

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. — Stefan Zweig

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy. — Stefan Zweig

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. — Stefan Zweig

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. — Stefan Zweig

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. — Stefan Zweig

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men. — Stefan Zweig

Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people. — Stefan Zweig

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig

All office workers are afraid of being late for work. — Stefan Zweig

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. — Stefan Zweig

But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive. — Stefan Zweig

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent ... — Stefan Zweig

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! — Stefan Zweig

In the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles. — Stefan Zweig

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. — Stefan Zweig

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. — Stefan Zweig

His jest implies: Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music. — Stefan Zweig

No one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity. — Stefan Zweig

Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being. — Stefan Zweig

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. — Stefan Zweig

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price. — Stefan Zweig

I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory. — Stefan Zweig

Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence and survival were at stake. — Stefan Zweig

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth. — Stefan Zweig

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war. — Stefan Zweig

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. — Stefan Zweig

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. — Stefan Zweig

The longest voyage of discovery, the boldest adventure in the records of our race, had begun. — Stefan Zweig

the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful. — Stefan Zweig

How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time! — Stefan Zweig

For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. — Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance. — Stefan Zweig

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart. — Stefan Zweig

the ruin insufficiently ruined, — Stefan Zweig

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. — Stefan Zweig

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage. — Stefan Zweig

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. — Stefan Zweig

One can run away from anything but oneself — Stefan Zweig

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. — Stefan Zweig

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. — Stefan Zweig

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ... — Stefan Zweig

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past. — Stefan Zweig

In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course. — Stefan Zweig

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it. — Stefan Zweig

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city. — Stefan Zweig

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence. — Stefan Zweig

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another. — Stefan Zweig

For tradition also and always means inhibition. — Stefan Zweig

Once more my pity had been stronger than my will. — Stefan Zweig

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. — Stefan Zweig

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. — Stefan Zweig

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. — Stefan Zweig

Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality. — Stefan Zweig

Happy people are poor psychologists. — Stefan Zweig

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence. — Stefan Zweig

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money. — Stefan Zweig

intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In — Stefan Zweig

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. — Stefan Zweig

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. — Stefan Zweig

Happiness would prevail where trees were planted. — Stefan Zweig

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. — Stefan Zweig

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. — Stefan Zweig

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal. — Stefan Zweig

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. — Stefan Zweig

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world. — Stefan Zweig

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. — Stefan Zweig

soothing silence instead of an oppressive one. — Stefan Zweig

Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion. — Stefan Zweig

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. — Stefan Zweig

yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness. — Stefan Zweig

Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence, — Stefan Zweig

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. — Stefan Zweig

For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses. — Stefan Zweig

But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby. — Stefan Zweig

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature. — Stefan Zweig

That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune. — Stefan Zweig