“To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
