Quotes from Stefan Zweig

Bu bir... evet, bir dakika... bu bir... birinin bir katile kar?? uyarmak için diÄŸerinin arkas?ndan koÅŸmas? ve diÄŸerinin de bizzat onu katil sanmas?, bu yüzden de kendi mahvoluÅŸuna doÄŸru koÅŸmaya devam etmesi gibi bir ÅŸet...

Fundamental in Hölderlin's scheme is the idea that poesy is indispensable to the world; nay, more, that it is not merely a creation within the cosmos, but itself creates the cosmos.

Like all headstrong types, Czentovic had no sense of the ridiculous; ever since his triumph in the world tournament, he considered himself the most important man in the world, and the awareness that he had beaten all these clever, intellectual, brilliant speakers and writers on their own ground, and above all the evident fact that he made more money than they did, transformed his original lack of self-confidence into a cold pride that for the most part he did not trouble to hide.

Das Studium ist nicht einmal Nebensache, es ist Formalität:

Çocuklar?nki gibi duyarl? bünyelerde her tutku balmumuna bas?lm?? gibi iz b?rak?r.

Bir insan? haftalarca, hatta aylarca ve durmamacas?na korkmaya zorlayan ve güvensizlikle onun maneviyat?n? bozan, arzular?n? uyuÅŸturan biri, ba???lanamaz. Ä°nsanlar, insanlar?n bir k?sm?, ya da içlerinden bir grup, tek bir kiÅŸinin bask?c?l???na uzun süre katlanamaz, ondan uzun süre nefret etmeden. Bu kin, dizginlenmiÅŸlerin kini, bütün çevrelerde alttan alta kaynar.

L'ammirare esteticamente il talento in ogni sua forma porta irresistibilmente ad analizzare se stessi, per vedere se nel proprio fisico ancora misterioso o nell'anima ancora semisvelata non vi sia traccia o possibilità di quella sublime essenza.

Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one's intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.

?nsan?n mutlulukla ya?am?? oldu?u karaya limandan ayr?lan bir gemiden bir kez daha bakmas? gibi arkas?ndan bakt?m.

Él lo sabe todo y lo consigue todo. Él te trae el libro más singular del más olvidado de los anticuarios alemanes. Es el hombre más capaz en toda Viena y además auténtico, un ejemplar de una raza en extinción, un saurio antediluviano de los libros.

No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues, inspiración o trabajo, sino inspiración más trabajo, exaltación más paciencia, deleite creador más tormento creador.

were uproariously demanding relief from their intolerable miseries — in this Potemkin sideshow there prevailed a preposterous and mendacious comfort.

J'entrevis pour la première fois que le pire en ce monde ne résulte pas toujours de la méchanceté ou de la violence, mais plus souvent de la faiblesse.

Aucune souffrance n'est plus sacrée que celle qui par pudeur n'ose pas se manifester

Åžu bir kaç saatin tad?n? ç?kar?n, hiçbirimize tek bir nefeslik bir yaÅŸam dahi verilmeyecek ve böyle bir anda aÅŸk? bulan onun keyfini ç?karmal?d?r.

History extols, not the beginner but the completer. She puts the victor on a pedestal, while leaving the mere combatant in obscurity. Thus has it been with Mesmer, the first of the new psychologists, whose ungrateful task it was to be born before his time.

Now they both smiled. The sweet, light fragrance of a first youthful, half-unspoken love, with all its intoxicating tenderness, had awoken in them like a dream on which you reflect ironically when you wake, although you really wish for nothing more than to dream it again, to live in the dream. The beautiful dream of young love that ventures only on half-measures, that desires and dares not ask, promises and does not give. They

But in no epoch has the struggle to find sanctuary in a foreign country been as arduous as in the present day, as countries isolate themselves behind hostility and jealousy (from The House of a Thousand Fortunes / Das Haus der tausend Schicksale, 1937)

In the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.

o da tüm kad?nlar gibi baÅŸkalar?n?n ruh hallerinden güç al?yordu,beÄŸenildiÄŸi zaman güzel oluyordu,zeki insanlar?n olduÄŸu çevrede espriliydi,takdir edidiÄŸinde büyüklenirdi,sevilirse eÄŸer a??k olurdu,ondan ne kadar ÅŸey istenirse istensin,o hep daha fazlas?n? verirdi.

L'Europe s'aperçoit en frémissant que, par sa sombre indifférence, une puissance destructrice a fait irruption chez elle, puissance qui paralysera ses forces pendant des siècles. Mais dans l'Histoire comme dans la vie des hommes le regret ne répare pas la perte d'un instant, et mille années ne rachètent pas une heure de négligence.

Die einzige Möglichkeit, den Hass zu bekämpfen, muss aus uns selbst kommen.

Allí perduraba, oculto en lo invisible como el clavo en la madera, una parte de mi propio yo hace tiempo soterrada.

Darkness must fall before we are aware of the majesty of the stars above our heads. It was necessary for this dark hour to fall, perhaps the darkest in history, to make us realize that freedom is as vital to our soul as breathing to our body.