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Stefan Zweig quotes: All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings. All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. The great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living. A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured? Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
Stefan Zweig quotes: Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
Stefan Zweig quotes: There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. 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 quotes: It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men. It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people. Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
Stefan Zweig quotes: All office workers are afraid of being late for work. All office workers are afraid of being late for work.
Stefan Zweig quotes: When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. 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 quotes: But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive. But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent ... Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent ...
Stefan Zweig quotes: How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
Stefan Zweig quotes: In the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles. In the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: His jest implies: Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music. His jest implies: Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.
Stefan Zweig quotes: No one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity. No one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price. If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
Stefan Zweig quotes: I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory. I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth. Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
Stefan Zweig quotes: It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war. It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.
Stefan Zweig quotes: He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The longest voyage of discovery, the boldest adventure in the records of our race, had begun. The longest voyage of discovery, the boldest adventure in the records of our race, had begun.
Stefan Zweig quotes: the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful. the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.
Stefan Zweig quotes: How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time! How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!
Stefan Zweig quotes: For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.
Stefan Zweig quotes: A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance. A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: the ruin insufficiently ruined, the ruin insufficiently ruined,
Stefan Zweig quotes: Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still. Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.
Stefan Zweig quotes: One can run away from anything but oneself One can run away from anything but oneself
Stefan Zweig quotes: Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Stefan Zweig quotes: You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ... You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ...
Stefan Zweig quotes: To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past. To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
Stefan Zweig quotes: In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course. In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig quotes: the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city. the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another. Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.
Stefan Zweig quotes: For tradition also and always means inhibition. For tradition also and always means inhibition.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Once more my pity had been stronger than my will. Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality. Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Happy people are poor psychologists. Happy people are poor psychologists.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money. ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.
Stefan Zweig quotes: intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In
Stefan Zweig quotes: On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. 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 quotes: Happiness would prevail where trees were planted. Happiness would prevail where trees were planted.
Stefan Zweig quotes: In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Stefan Zweig quotes: There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Stefan Zweig quotes: The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal. The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
Stefan Zweig quotes: It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world. It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Stefan Zweig quotes: No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Stefan Zweig quotes: soothing silence instead of an oppressive one. soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion. Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Stefan Zweig quotes: yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness. yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness.
Stefan Zweig quotes: Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence, Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence,
Stefan Zweig quotes: She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.
Stefan Zweig quotes: For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses. For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
Stefan Zweig quotes: 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. 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 quotes: But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature. But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.
Stefan Zweig quotes: That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune. That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.

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