QUOTES by Stefan Zweig
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“great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself.”
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“It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.”
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“Whether we do it or not, we’ll have to see—but still, just to have an idea, to think it through, work it out, and calculate the alternatives down to the ultimate consequences, that’ll be a pleasure I’d never expected to have.”
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“I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.”
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“Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf,”
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“You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...”
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“had he been only a hardworking craftsman all his life, fitting colours together as a labourer constructs a building out of stones?”
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“The woman has a dangerous decision to confront, whether she will live her own life, or that of her children, whether she will be a woman first or a mother first.”
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“A new world suddenly opened up on the printed page before me, the words moved vigorously towards me as if they had been seeking me for centuries...”
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“One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demoniacal and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time.”
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“See, that’s what we’re like. You’re brave and you’re not afraid to die, but you’re afraid of being late for work. That’s how enslaved we are, that’s how ingrained it is.”
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“The strikingly broad, almost athletically powerful shoulders unfortunately reflected the character of his playing too, for this Mr. McConnor was one of those self-obsessed big wheels who feel personally diminished by a defeat in even the most trivial game.”
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“Poverty was crushing all the feeling they had. It was intolerable to be together this way, and yet they tolerated it.”
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“This contact with the overpowering is her first encounter with travel’s disconcerting ability to strip the hard shell of habit from the heart, leaving only the bare, fertile kernel.”
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“The vast power of money, mighty when you have it and even mightier when you don’t, with its divine gift of freedom and the demonic fury it unleashes on those forced to do without it—”
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“War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.”
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“With secret envy Christine thought: If only I could go back to taking pleasure in such little things, instead of yearning for the impossible.”
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“To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.”
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“It’s not your fault. But whose fault is it? Why are we always the ones who suffer? We didn’t do anything, we didn’t do anything to anyone, but every step we take is a trap.”
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“Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.”
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“pain is cowardly, it gives way before the overpowering will to live which seems to cling more strongly to our flesh than all the mortal suffering of the spirit.”
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“For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.”
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“..pain is cowardly, it gives way before the overpowering will to live which seems to cling more strongly to our flesh than all the mortal suffering of the spirit."..”
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“Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one’s intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.”
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“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes into safe harbour he longs to be back in the turmoil.”
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“That is to say, I went in search of every moment I had spent with him. ..."
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“intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In”
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“Her words came tumbling out in pursuit of the images hurrying through her mind.”
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“He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect deeply and ruminate. And it is among his books he hopes to find the solution to the eternal problem of “life and death”.”
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“How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others, to serve interests which are not my own?”
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“How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?”
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“dreams are like delicate little white flowers that will be blown away at the first breath of reality?”
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“How to remain free? How to preserve the incorruptible lucidity of my spirit faced with all the threats and dangers of sectarian turmoil?”
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“Once a man has found himself, there is nothing in this world that he can lose.”
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“Its radiant glow seemed much lighter and happier than this northern sky of eternal grey cloud.”
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“But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.”
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“But travelling, even as far as to other worlds under other stars, did not allow me to escape Europe and my anxieties. However far I went from Europe, its fate came with me.”
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