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More Quotes by Stefan Zweig
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
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.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
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.
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.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
