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Beware of Pity

Book by Stefan Zweig · 18 quotes · Beware Of Pity, Zweig, Love

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“The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.”

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“الرجل الذي لا يبادل عاشقته عاطفتها إنما يمزق كبرياءها و هو حين يقابل تقربها منه و توددها إليه بالنفور و الإعراض إنما يطعنها في أعز مشاعرها و أنبلها و عبثا تكون عندئذ كل رقته و أدبه في التنصل منها بل إنه ليهينها إن عرض عليها صداقته الخالصة بعد أن تكون قد كشفت له ضعفها فإنها تعد ذلك منه جريمة خطيرة و قسوة بالغة”

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“A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.”

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“the outcasts, the branded, the ugly, the withered, the deformed, the despised and rejected, desire with a more passionate, far more dangerous avidity than the happy; that they love with a fanatical, a baleful, a black love, and that no passion on earth rears its head so greedily, so desperately, as the forlorn and hopeless passion of these step-chlidren of God, who feel that they can only justify their earthly existence by loving and being loved.”

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