Letter from an Unknown Woman Stephen Zweig 9787216048071 Quotes

“I wanted to be the one among all the women you had intimately known of whom you would never think except with love and thankfulness. In actual fact, you never thought of me at all. You forgot me.”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman Stephen Zweig 9787216048071

“You did not recognize me. Two days later, when our paths again crossed, and you looked at me with an approach to intimacy, it was not in recognition of the girl who had loved you so long and whom you had awakened to adulthood; it was simply that you knew the face of the pretty lass of eighteen whom you had encountered at the same spot two evenings before. Your expression was one of friendly surprise, and a smile fluttered about your lips.”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman Stephen Zweig 9787216048071