Stefan Zweig: Frases en inglés

Stefan Zweig era escritor austríaco. Frases en inglés.
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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”

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Stefan Zweig libro El mundo de ayer

Fuente: The World of Yesterday

“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: Chess Story

“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Post-Office Girl

“The vast power of money, mighty when you have it and even mightier when you don't, with its divine gift of freedom and the demonic fury it unleashes on those forced to do without it — they felt this as never before and were filled with bitter rage when, in the dark of the early morning, they saw the brightly lit windows and knew that those glowing gold curtains gave shelter and freedom to hundreds of thousands of people, men with women they desired, while they themselves were homeless, plodding blindly through the streets, through the rain; it was cruel as only the sea could be cruel — the sea in which a person can die of thirst.”

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Stefan Zweig libro The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.”

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Stefan Zweig libro The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

“Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.”

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Stefan Zweig libro Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Post-Office Girl

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Burning Secret and other stories

“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 that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Burning Secret and other stories

“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”

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Stefan Zweig libro Beware of Pity

Fuente: Beware of Pity (1939)

“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Burning Secret and other stories

“All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.”

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Fuente: Letter from an Unknown Woman: The Fowler Snared

“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd…
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: Chess Story

“Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.”

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“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”

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Stefan Zweig

Fuente: The Burning Secret and other stories

“All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.”

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The World of Yesterday [Die Welt von Gestern] (1942), p. 10, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld

“Gratitude is a rare frame of mind; and those who are grateful can seldom find a way to express what they feel. They are overwhelmed by silence; are shamefaced; and, sometimes, actually try to hide their feelings.”

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Stefan Zweig libro Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

“No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.”

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Stefan Zweig libro Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)

“Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.”

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Stefan Zweig libro Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity (1939)