Writer Quotes by Stefan Zweig

8 Writer quotes by Stefan Zweig

For a European literary voice’s nuanced view of narrative, Stefan Zweig’s eight short quotations give a quick, thoughtful glimpse into his elegant, psychological approach.

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“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to…

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“For him books are not like men, who impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard…

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For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves…

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One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to…

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“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is…

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“Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig…

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“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.”

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I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see…

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“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so…

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“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,…

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“Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır.”

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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…

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Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;…

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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

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

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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 it comes…

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It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by…

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“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.…

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The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is…

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The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own…

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“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

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