Famous Stefan Zweig Quotations

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"(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderliness ... and he would not be a German if he had ..."
by Stefan Zweig
"(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and—a mercy on this earth of ours—this is the only place where ther..."
by Stefan Zweig
"Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humanki..."
by Stefan Zweig
"Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance..."
by Stefan Zweig
"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..."
by Stefan Zweig
"I call demonic the restlessness which is innate and essential in every human being ... (that which) drives one beyond one's limits into the in..."
by Stefan Zweig
"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."
by Stefan Zweig
"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but th..."
by Stefan Zweig
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
by Stefan Zweig
"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-shatteri..."
by Stefan Zweig
"We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I am content with..."
by Stefan Zweig


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