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Stefan Zweig Quote: “And only decades later, when roof and walls fell in upon us, did we realize that the foundations had long since been undermined and that together with the new century the decline of individual freedom in Europe had begun.”

201. “And only decades later, when roof and walls fell in upon us, did we realize that the foundations had long since been undermined and that together with the new century the decline of individual freedom in Europe had begun.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.”

202. “The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.”

203. “Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “It is from this unusual attitude alone that we can understand how the State exploited the schools as an instrument for the maintenance of its authority.”

204. “It is from this unusual attitude alone that we can understand how the State exploited the schools as an instrument for the maintenance of its authority.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “To guard oneself from presumption.”

205. “To guard oneself from presumption.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.”

206. “They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “At that moment I was fully aware for the first time how far advanced the process of paralysis already was in me – it was as if I were moving through flowing, bright water without being halted or taking root anywhere, and I knew very well that this chill was something dead and corpse-like, not yet surrounded by the foul breath of decomposition but already numbed beyond recovery, a grimly cold lack of emotion.”

207. “At that moment I was fully aware for the first time how far advanced the process of paralysis already was in me – it was as if I were moving through flowing, bright water without being halted or taking root anywhere, and I knew very well that this chill was something dead and corpse-like, not yet surrounded by the foul breath of decomposition but already numbed beyond recovery, a grimly cold lack of emotion.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “Inflation, unemployment, the political crises and, not least, the folly of lands abroad, had made the German people restless; a tremendous desire for order animated all circles of the German people, to whom order had always been more important than freedom and justice. And anyone who promised order – even Goethe said that disorder was more distasteful to him than even an injustice – could count on hundreds of thousands of supporters from the start.”

208. “Inflation, unemployment, the political crises and, not least, the folly of lands abroad, had made the German people restless; a tremendous desire for order animated all circles of the German people, to whom order had always been more important than freedom and justice. And anyone who promised order – even Goethe said that disorder was more distasteful to him than even an injustice – could count on hundreds of thousands of supporters from the start.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.”

209. “I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “Destiny always knows how to find the way to a man whom it needs for its secret purposes, even if he desires to hide himself.”

210. “Destiny always knows how to find the way to a man whom it needs for its secret purposes, even if he desires to hide himself.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.”

211. “He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.”

212. “All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.”

213. “He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “As is the case with all those of a tenacious nature, he lacked any sense of the ridiculous;.”

214. “As is the case with all those of a tenacious nature, he lacked any sense of the ridiculous;.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.”

215. “I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “I had no witness against me left but my own memory.“...”

216. “I had no witness against me left but my own memory.“...”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.”

217. “Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.”

218. “To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “It’s no use torturing oneself; it only tortures other people.”

219. “It’s no use torturing oneself; it only tortures other people.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “But only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.”

220. “But only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.”

— Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig Quote: “Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.”

221. “Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.”

— Stefan Zweig

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