Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Stefan Zweig
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig
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
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Stefan Zweig
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
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 the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Stefan Zweig
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Stefan Zweig
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
Stefan Zweig
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Stefan Zweig
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Stefan Zweig
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
Stefan Zweig
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
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
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