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“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.”

Quote by Stefan Zweig

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Stefan Zweig, born on November 28, 1881 in Vienna, was an Austrian novelist, playwright, and biographer. Known for his profound psychological insights and unique narrative style, he is a significant figure in European literature at the beginning of the 20th century. more

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“In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.”

Way Humans Reason Form Suffering Given Grows Understanding Human Nature Lessons Insight Mysterious Acquire Tragic Day To Day Abnormal Mysterious Ways

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.”

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“One can run away from anything but oneself.”

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“Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.”

Firsts May Seems Names Realizing Destiny Skins Fingers Rings Mysterious Our Destiny Your Destiny Transforming

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.”

Natural Perfect Results Opposites Harmony Unions Complementary Perfect Harmony

Author:Stefan Zweig

“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.”

World Way Different Pain Spirit Felt Water Materials Bears Limits Despair Elements Stress Add Behave Metals Disgusting Inherent Humiliation Vessel Melting Boiling Boiling Point

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.”

Easy Ambition Accomplishment Coincidence

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”

Trying Mind Humans Self Human Beings Danger Instinct Bottom Deception Self Deception Declaring

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“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”

World Littles Bigs Vindictive

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Decision Mankind Position Greatness Honor One Day Letters Historical Significance About Yourself Destined Historic Wagner Brahms

Book:A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Source: A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935