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From Quotes by Stefan Zweig
- There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying…
- Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
- Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon…
- But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish…
- Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human…
- Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again…
- For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are…
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