Stefan Zweig Quotes


Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.


Citations

Zweig, Stefan. The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, Viking Press, 1943, p. 455.

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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.