"In history, the moments during which reason and……" — Stefan Zweig
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
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53 Quotes by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig has 53 quotes on this site.
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once…
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Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly…
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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…
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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among…
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Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea.…
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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to…
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for…
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The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
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When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed…
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There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of…
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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
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More Fleeting Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and…
— Andre Breton
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Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used…
— Kobe Bryant
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The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in…
— Julie Burchill
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look…
— Fred Allen
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Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
— Tori Amos
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