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“it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”

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Beware of Pity

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Stefan Zweig

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

“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.”

Love Beware Of Pity

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“it's always good to know that one has saved at least one person, kept faith with one person, made a good job of one thing.”

Life Zweig Beware Of Pity

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“a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.”

Justice Zweig Beware Of Pity

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