Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Quotes by Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
"Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself."
"And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, everything was strange, we women lying there were strange to each other, lonely and hating one another out of misery, the same torment in that crowded ward full of chloroform and blood, screams and groans."
"A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living."
"That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance."