"Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of……" — Stefan Zweig
"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 of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life."
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53 Quotes by Stefan Zweig
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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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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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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no…
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