Stefan Zweig

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• We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I am content with...

• This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shatteri...

• Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

• Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but th...

• In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

• I call demonic the restlessness which is innate and essential in every human being ... (that which) drives one beyond one's limits into the in...

• Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the...

• Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance...

• Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humanki...

• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and—a mercy on this earth of ours—this is the only place where ther...

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