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Stefan Zweig
Birthdate: 28. November 1881
Date of death: 23. February 1942
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world. Wikipedia
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Works
Beware of Pity
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The Post Office Girl
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
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Erasmus of Rotterdam
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan ZweigQuotes Stefan Zweig
„Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.“
— Stefan Zweig, book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
„Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.“
— Stefan Zweig, book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
„The vast power of money, mighty when you have it and even mightier when you don't, with its divine gift of freedom and the demonic fury it unleashes on those forced to do without it — they felt this as never before and were filled with bitter rage when, in the dark of the early morning, they saw the brightly lit windows and knew that those glowing gold curtains gave shelter and freedom to hundreds of thousands of people, men with women they desired, while they themselves were homeless, plodding blindly through the streets, through the rain; it was cruel as only the sea could be cruel — the sea in which a person can die of thirst.“
— Stefan Zweig, book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
„No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.“
— Stefan Zweig, book Beware of Pity
Source: Beware of Pity (1939)
„How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!“
Source: The Burning Secret and other stories
„All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.“
Source: Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Fowler Snared
„All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.“
The World of Yesterday [Die Welt von Gestern] (1942), p. 10, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld
„Gratitude is a rare frame of mind; and those who are grateful can seldom find a way to express what they feel. They are overwhelmed by silence; are shamefaced; and, sometimes, actually try to hide their feelings.“
— Stefan Zweig, book Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)
„No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.“
— Stefan Zweig, book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
