"Even from the abyss of horror in which……" — Stefan Zweig
"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 and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward."
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Stefan Zweig
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53 Quotes by Stefan Zweig
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