“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.” FallIndividualStrongEgoClaimsDareEndlessOnenessThreadEntityCatastropheBeadsRise And Fall Book:Cross Creek Source: Cross Creek
“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.” WorldWayYearsHumansSometimesMomentsHandsFallIndividualForceGrowsLeadershipHuman BeingsPowerfulFateMinutesGreatnessElementsAssumingViolentObedienceThreadWorld HistoryAstonishingDependencyIntangibleElementalsSubservientTwitching Author:Stefan Zweig
“Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.” ArtArtistFallFairsDelicateThreadCurtains Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944 Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944