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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 watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.
— Stefan Zweig The Post-Office Girl
Tags: words, reading, literature, books

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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.
— Stefan Zweig
Tags: who, speak, war, peace
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
— Stefan Zweig
Tags: misfortune, understanding, only, world
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 writers who write in German.
— Stefan Zweig
Tags: who, impossible, disappointment, today
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
— Stefan Zweig
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
— Stefan Zweig
Tags: wave, how, must, high
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