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"18 Stefan Zweig Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 November 1881. Died: 22 February 1942 | Novelist | Playwright | Journalist | Biographer |

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

Nothing whets The intelligence Passionate suspicion Develops
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The person Experienced light Darkness Peace
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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

No guilt Is forgotten The conscience Still knows
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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

In chess Intellectual game Where randomness Is excluded
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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Freedom Not possible Without authority Into chaos
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Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.

Art Bring us Consolation Individuals
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Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

My pity Been stronger My will
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Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

A man Found himself Is nothing This world
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We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Are happy Things conform Unhappy People
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Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources.

Maybe everything So hard Life Much easier
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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.

Is never One realize Means something To others
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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Nothing On earth More pressure Human mind
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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

More vindictive More underhanded Little world Big one
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It remains an irrefutable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Irrefutable law History That contemporaries A recognition
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Soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Soul Mysteriously elastic Single event Big enough
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I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

I realized No point Denying oneself A pleasure
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Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone’s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Exalt yourself By devoting To others Enrich yourself
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Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

Gone further All honesty Have done My lies
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Stefan Zweig Quotes & Sayings