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One Quotes by Stefan Zweig
- I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one…
- All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself,…
- Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat…
- 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…
- One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
- 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…
- Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
- For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events…
- She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing…
- One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against…
- We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as…
- There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as…
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