for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“But we need to make a distinction: we can love this or that, but we cannot “form a marriage bond” unless it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Now they both smiled. The sweet, light fragrance of a first youthful, half-unspoken love, with all its intoxicating tenderness, had awoken in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“But love truly becomes love only when, no longer an embryo developing painfully in the darkness of the body, it ventures to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
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… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
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… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
