“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness th...”
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Stefan Zweig (geboren am 28. November 1881 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben am 23. Februar 1942 in Petrópolis, Brasilien) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Pazifist. Zweig gehörte zu den beliebtesten deutschsprachigen Schriftstellern seiner Zeit. Mit seinen vielgelesenen psychologischen Novellen wie *Brennendes Geheimnis* (1911), *Angst, Brief einer Unbekannten, Der Amokläufer* und literarisierten Biographien, darunter *Magellan. Der Mann und seine Tat* sowie *Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam,* gehörte er zu den bedeutenden deutschsprachigen Erzählern zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Sprache ist durch Anschaulichkeit und klangliche Gefälligkeit gekennzeichnet; die Werke sind in ihrer Erzählweise sowie den stilistischen Mitteln weitgehend dem Realismus verpflichtet. Sie vereinigen klassische Elemente, darunter einen dramatischen Handlungsablauf, mit psychoanalytisch gezeichneten Figuren und betrachtet aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. So bot Zweig seiner breiten Leserschaft einen Zugang zu einer Literatur, in der ihre Gegenwart reflektiert wurde, ohne sie mit modernistischen Erzählweisen zu konfrontieren. Unter seinen zahlreichen Prosaarbeiten ragen besonders die *Schachnovelle,* die *Sternstunden der Menschheit* sowie seine Erinnerungen *Die Welt von Gestern* hervor. ---------- Stefan Zweig (born November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary; died February 23, 1942, in Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian writer, translator, and pacifist. Zweig was among the most popular German-language writers of his time. With his widely read psychological novellas such as *Burning Secret* (1911), *Fear*, *Letter from an Unknown Woman*, and *The Amok*, as well as literary biographies including *Magellan: The Man and His Deed* and *Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam*, he was one of the most important German-language storytellers of the early 20th century. His language is characterized by vividness and sonorous quality; his works, in their narrative style and stylistic devices, are largely committed to realism. They combine classical elements, including a dramatic plot, with psychoanalytically drawn characters and are viewed from diverse perspectives. Zweig thus offered his broad readership access to a literature that reflected their present without confronting them with modernist narrative styles. Among his numerous prose works, the novella *The Royal Game*, *The Tide of Fortune*, and his memoir *The World of Yesterday* stand out in particular. **Source**: [Stefan Zweig](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig), Wikipedia.
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“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness th...”
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“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness o...”
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“But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.”
“Alors, dans l'obscurité j'ai pleuré de bonheur.”
“Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.”
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“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great...”
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“For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watche...”
“Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.”
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“Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemer...”
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“It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.”
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“Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.”
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“The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.”
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“Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish...”
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“Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.”
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“When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.”
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