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• In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

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  Soul, Depth, Events

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.

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  Believe, Animal, Hands

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• How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

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  Beautiful, Darkness, Terrible

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.55, Pushkin Press

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• Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

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  People, Lines, Firsts

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

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  War, Blood, Enemy

  Stefan Zweig (1929). “Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

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• There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.

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  Pain, Stress, Water

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

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  Games, Play, Intellectual

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• for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

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  Men, Infinity

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• For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

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  Men, Hands, Limits

  Stefan Zweig (1989). “The burning secret: and other stories”, Plume Books

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• Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

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  Strong, Fear, Long

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

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  Military, War, Creativity

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• I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

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  Voice, Today, Too Much

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

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  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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• Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

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  Hands, Gossip, Tongue

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

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  Encounters, Add, Nerves

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Hay dos tipos de compasión. Una es la pusilánime y sentimental. En realidad, no es más que la impaciencia del corazón, que se apresura a deshacerse de ese sentimiento duro cuando ves el sufrimiento de otras personas; esto no es compasión, sino sólo una voluntad instintiva de defenderse de las desgracias de los demás. Pero hay otra compasión, la verdadera, que exige acciones, no sentimientos, sabe lo que quiere y está llena de determinación para hacer todo lo que está en el poder humano e incluso más allá de él.

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  Love, Dream, Determination

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• For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

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  Men, Hands, Special

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• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

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  Christian, Jobs, Freedom

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• Es una bendición no haber adquirido todavía ese ojo demasiado agudo, diagnosticador y misántropo, y ser capaz de mirar a las personas y a las cosas con confianza cuando uno las ve por primera vez.

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  Eye, Blessing, People

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

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  Running, Dark, Mind

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.27, Pushkin Press

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• He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.

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  Corazón, Puertas, Largo

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• On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

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  War, Men, Whole

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• La unión de los opuestos, en la medida en que son realmente complementarios, siempre resulta en la armonía más perfecta; y lo aparentemente incongruente es a menudo lo más natural.

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  Opposites, Perfect, Unions

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Erasmo fue la luz de su siglo; otros fueron su fuerza: él alumbró el camino; otros supieron recorrerlo mientras él mismo permanecía en la sombra, como permanece siempre la fuente de la luz. Pero quien señala el camino hacia una nueva era no es menos digno de veneración que quien es el primero en entrar en ella; quienes trabajan de forma invisible también han realizado una hazaña.

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  Leadership, Light, History

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

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  Organization, Ideas, Unity

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