Stefan Zweig Quotes


Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.


Citations

Zweig, Stefan. Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, George Allen & Unwin, 1928.

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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
  • Born: November 28, 1881
  • Died: February 22, 1942
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Novelist, Playwright, Journalist Biographer

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world.