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• In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

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  Fleeting, Moments, Reason

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• A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

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  Historical, Atmosphere, Significance

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Satisfaction, Feels

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

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  Feelings, May, Reason

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• 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, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

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  Ideas, People, World

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• He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

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  Lying, Heart, Flames

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.7, Pushkin Press

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• Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

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  Pain, Heart, Roots

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• Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

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  Reality, Understanding, Depth

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• Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.

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  Art, Eye, Opportunity

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• Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

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  Presence Of Mind, Energy, Spotlight

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• The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

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  Dresses, Problem

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.

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  Inspirational, Individual Strength, Giving

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• Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

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  Fate, Ever After, Vulnerable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

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  Heart, Compassion, Sight

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• 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 Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.

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  Feelings, Secret, Mind

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.144, Pushkin Press

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• The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

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  Art, Book, Silent

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• The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

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  Rumor, Lasts, Subjects

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

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  Soul, Depth, Events

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.

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  Pain, Stress, Water

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

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  Beautiful, Darkness, Terrible

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.55, Pushkin Press

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• In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.

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  Hate, Optimistic, Psychosis

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• for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

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  Men, Infinity

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• For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

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  Men, Hands, Limits

  Stefan Zweig (1989). “The burning secret: and other stories”, Plume Books

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• Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

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  Moving, Feelings, Emotion

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.198, Pushkin Press

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• Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

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  Philosophical, Race, Years

  "The Struggle with the Demon". Book by Stefan Zweig, transl. by Marion Sonnenfeld, p. 256, 1929.

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