Ifs Quotes by Stefan Zweig

10 Ifs quotes by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s “Ifs” flow with his characteristic lyrical prose, each fragment a delicate exploration of what might have been.

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

Stefan Zweig

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

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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…

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A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal…

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(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a…

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Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if…

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When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that…

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He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the…

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Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.…

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Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a…

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