Arthur Schnitzler Quotes

• To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Photography, Waiting, Able

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• To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Mean, Sincerity, Practicals

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• No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Loneliness, Mask, Disguise

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• I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Writing, Love And Death, Subjects

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• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Memories, Writing, Easy

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• Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Brother, Sleep, Doe

  Arthur Schnitzler (1982). “Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler”, p.112, A&C Black

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• Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Creatures, Died

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• The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Tasks, Illusion, Principal

  Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

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• Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Gratitude, Pride, Opportunity

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• You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Care, Want, Want To Be Happy

  Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

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• It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Hate, Charm, Love Or Hate

  "Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy".

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