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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 the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

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Book, Fate, Order

Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.126, Pushkin Press

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All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

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Office, Late, Workers

Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.

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Life, War, Men

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

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The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.

Stefan Zweig

Art, Drama, Fate

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Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

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Spiritual, Firsts, Emotion

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A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

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Fall, Grace, Neighbor

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

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Destiny, Names, Skins

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

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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 sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

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Love, Husband, Regret

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For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

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Play, Listening, Nerves

Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

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Ambition, Accomplishment, Coincidence

"Sternstunden der Menschheit". Book by Stefan Zweig, p. 280, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld, 1935.

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Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes froma weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.

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Inspirational, Hands, Inspire

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It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

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Pieces, Way, Youth

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

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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

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Disappointment, Writing, German Language

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Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

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Change, Order, Essence

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The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.

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Girl, Sex, Sight

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

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Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

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Fate, Demise, Deeds

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Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

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Pain, Passion, Coward

Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.

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Depression, Dream, Giving

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

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And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

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Fate, Men, Brave

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(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

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Notebook, Education, Learning

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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 our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

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Special, Upheaval, Soil

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Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

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Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

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Born: November 28, 1881
Died: February 22, 1942
Occupation: Novelist
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