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Quotes from Stellar Moments in Human History [Sternstunden der Menschheit — Stefan Zweig

1881–1942 Austria

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Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Stellar Moments in Human History [Sternstunden der Menschheit (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stefan Zweig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.