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More Quotes by Stefan Zweig
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.