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Stefan Zweig

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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.


— Stefan Zweig


#eventually #every #forceful #high #how

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.


— Stefan Zweig


#in-depth #into #misfortune #only #overview

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.


— Stefan Zweig


#exists #hitler #idea #jewish #only

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.


— Stefan Zweig


#come #feel #sacrifice #sense #you

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.


— Stefan Zweig


#completed #copiously #force #mobilization #most

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.


— Stefan Zweig


#convinced #enthusiasm #must #others #stimulate

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.


— Stefan Zweig


#bring #does #history #hour #human

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 the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.


— Stefan Zweig


#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.


— Stefan Zweig


#even #fate #favorites #generous #gods

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.


— Stefan Zweig


#experienced #fall #life #light #only






About Stefan Zweig

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Did you know about Stefan Zweig?

Religion did not play a central role in his education. Zweig had a warm relationship with Theodor Herzl the founder of Zionism whom he met when Herzl was still literary editor of the Neue Freie Presse then Vienna's main newspaper; Herzl accepted for publication some of Zweig's early essays. Biography
Zweig was the son of Moritz Zweig (1845–1926) a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer and Ida Brettauer (1854–1938) from a Jewish banking family.

At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the most famous writers in the world.

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