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Stefan Zweig

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Biography - Stefan Zweig:

Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1942
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.



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The rest belongs to the music as well.





Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.





But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.





The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.





The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.





One can run away from anything but oneself.












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