Stefan Zweig Quotes

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• One can run away from anything but oneself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Running, Running Away, Oneself

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• 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

  Life, Regret, Years

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• Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Truth, Silence, Criminals

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig, Henry G. Alsberg (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• 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

  Mean, Purpose, Realizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, War, Fall

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• Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

  Stefan Zweig

  Eye, Feelings, Rooms

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Happy people are poor psychologists.

  Stefan Zweig

  People, Poor, Happy People

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Chaos, Authority, Tyranny

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

  Stefan Zweig

  Wave, Collapse

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• 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

  Memories, Want, Remember

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Long, Guilt, Forgotten

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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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

  Terrible, Humans, Knows

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.64, Pushkin Press

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• To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, Past, Anxiety

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fear, Mirrors, Imagination

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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• 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

  Men, Creative, Doe

  Stefan Zweig (2012). “Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud”, p.289, Pushkin Press

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• It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

  Stefan Zweig

  Girl, Women, Lying

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.69, Pushkin Press

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• It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Would Be, World, Foolhardy

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

  Stefan Zweig

  World, Littles, Vindictive

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.

  Stefan Zweig

  Hate, Optimistic, Psychosis

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• Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, Goal, Life Is

  Stefan Zweig (1927). “Conflicts: Three Tales”

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• One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

  Stefan Zweig

  Strength, Character, Human Nature

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

  Stefan Zweig

  Should, Ifs, Sells

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• 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

  Peace, War, Talking

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• There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Compassion, Sight

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

  Stefan Zweig

  People, Stupidest

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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