“ If today I were to counsel a young writer who is still unsure of his way, I would try to persuade him first to adapt or translate a sizable work. In all sacrificing service there is more assurance for… Stefan Zweig
“ I saw how the idea, still colourless, nothing but pure and flowing heat, streamed from the furnace of his impulsive excitement like the molten metal to make a bell, then gradually, as it cooled, took… Stefan Zweig
“ I had never even thought of Edith as a member of the opposite sex; it had never even so much as crossed my mind that her crippled body was possessed of the same organs, that her soul harboured the sam… Stefan Zweig
“ I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things. Stefan Zweig
“ How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices… Stefan Zweig
“ Hiçbir şeyin benim için gerçekleşmediği, ama yine de her şeyin bana dahil olduğu duygusunu taşıyordum yalnızca; ilgisiz kalsam da, çok derin ve çok gerçek şeyler tadıyor olmak müthiş mutluluk veren bi… Stefan Zweig
“ Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being. Stefan Zweig
“ For him books are not like men, who impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard to be rid. When you don’t call for them they stay put; you can just pick up this one or… Stefan Zweig
“ Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood… Stefan Zweig
“ Dostoyevski bir yığın bilgiyi yeni bir insanlık için feda etmiştir ve bu yeni insanlığa en derin sırrını, en son formülünü, en unutulmaz sözünü söylemiştir: Hayatı hayatın anlamından daha çok sevin. Stefan Zweig
“ Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact, or have some of them died or withered away? Haven’t they been torn out of you… Stefan Zweig
“ Dickens bütün İngilizler gibi sadece dudaklarıyla gülümser, bütün vücuduyla değil. Neşesi kendi kendini yakmaz, sadece parıldar ve ışıklarını insanların damarlarına saçar, binlerce küçük alev içinde y… Stefan Zweig
“ Daima senin etrafındaydım, daima gergin ve hareketliydim; ama sen bunu, cebinde taşıdığın ve karanlıkta sabırla saatlerini sayan ve duyulmayan kalp atışlarıyla sana eşlik eden ve milyonlarca tıkırtılı… Stefan Zweig
“ 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. Stefan Zweig
“ Como en el siglo dieciocho lo francés, los atributos árabe, persa, indostánico, se identificaban en la Edad Media con los conceptos de exuberante, refinado, distinguido, cortesano, costoso y precioso. Stefan Zweig
“ Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosop… Stefan Zweig
“ But we need to make a distinction: we can love this or that, but we cannot form a marriage bond unless it is with our own selves. Stefan Zweig
“ But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more natural additions and alteratio… Stefan Zweig
