Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game Quotes

“ولا بد دائماً أن تنسرب الملايين من الساعات في تاريخ العالم هدراً، قبل أن تظهر إلى حيز الوجود ساعة تاريخية حقاً، ساعة حاسمة من ساعات البشرية”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“Gratitude is a rare frame of mind; and those who are grateful can seldom find a way to express what they feel. They are overwhelmed by silence; are shamefaced; and, sometimes, actually try to hide their feelings.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“(...) apelando a ese autoengaño que llamamos recuerdo.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“Sei apenas que me assaltava sempre o desejo de morrer; faltavam-me, porém, a coragem para antecipar, eu própria, esse fim dolorosamente ambicionado.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“But after all, time is strong, and age has the curious power of devaluing all our feelings.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing it in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“a woman's feelings know everything without words, without conscious awareness.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience,”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“The less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly. If you are experiencing nothing yourself, the passionate restlessness of others stimulates the nervous system like music or drama.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“I was seeing a human being overflowing with emotion, forcing his passion into his fingertips lest it tear him apart.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“Most people have little imagination. If something doesn't affect them directly, does not drive a shar wedge straight into their minds, it hardly excites them at all, but if an incident, however slight, takes place before their eyes, close enough for the senses to perceive it, it instantly rouses them to extremes of passion. They compensate for the infrequency of their sympathy, as it were, by exhibiting disproportionate and excessive vehemence.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

“Dù sao thời gian cũng có một uy lực rất lớn và tuổi tác đã làm lắng dịu một cách kỳ lạ tất cả mọi tình cảm. Người ta cảm thấy gần với cái chết hơn, bóng của nó làm đườn đi tối lại, mọi việc có vẻ không còn tươi sáng nữa, chúng không tác động bao nhiêu đến những nơi thầm kín của con người như trước kia và chúng cũng mất đi nhiều uy lực hiểm nghèo.”
― Stefan Zweig, Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game