QUOTES by Stefan Zweig
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“The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.”
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“He studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.”
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“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.”
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“He makes it his task to be wholly sincere with himself, and he notes this definition of wisdom which he finds in Pindar: “True being is the beginning of a great virtue.”
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“He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.”
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“I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.”
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“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.”
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“But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.”
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“What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.”
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“He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings, no law, no system, only an example: the man who seeks himself in all and who seeks all in himself.”
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“He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his “pensée vagabonde”.”
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“He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.”
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“To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.”
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“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.”
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“To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.”
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“To be free of vanity or pride, these perhaps the gravest of all indulgences.”
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“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.”
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“The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account - that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart.”
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“ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.”
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Destiny does not always need the powerful prelude of a sudden violent blow to shake a heart beyond recovery.
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“The beautiful dream of young love that ventures only on half-measures, that desires and dares not ask, promises and does not give.
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“He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.”
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“Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.”
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“Only the man who remains free from all and everything augments and sustains freedom on this earth.”
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“States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.” “States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them to feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.”
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“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.”
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“For the first time in my life I had received an assurance that I had been of use to someone on this earth, and my astonishment at the thought that I, a commonplace, unsophisticated young officer, should really have the power to make someone else so happy knew no bounds.”
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“But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more “natural” additions and alterations.”
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“The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.”
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“That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.”
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