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.
Stefan Zweig
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
wave
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
misfortune world understanding exile
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
conscience world count
Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
world england
Today, as a Jew, one should not have any position or accept any honors because it is difficult to live with those eternal compromises.
live today eternal difficult accept jew
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
plans organization organizations unity idea plan jewish brains hitler
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.
language living today writers disappointment write hopelessness german misery desperation impossible jewish jew
The life of our generation is now set. We do not have the power to influence the flow of events, and no right to offer advice to the next generation.
life power advice influence events flow offer
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.
time happiness sense feeling eyes leave freedom
mystery intelligence
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
beautiful darkness terrible
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.
sleep children childhood child bed
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.
heart loneliness disappointment
Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.
life-lessons
Od onog ondašnjeg?ovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono što je bitno, ali ja uop?e više nisam taj?ovjek. Mogao bih pri?ati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osu?ivati a da uop?e ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene.
life man past self-awareness
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