QUOTES by Stefan Zweig
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“I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.”
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“One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.”
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“Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources.”
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“Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.”
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“People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
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“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.”
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“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.”
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“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
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“Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.”
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“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”
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“Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.”
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“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
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“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”
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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.”
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“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
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