What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all. Stefan Zweig
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Mitch Albom
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Antonio Porchia
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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H. Rider Haggard
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
More Quotes By Stefan Zweig
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.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collectors, including the founder of a collection in Princeton University Library,...
Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.
But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."" Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten". There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet...
