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Stellar Moments in Human History [Sternstunden der Menschheit] (1953) [tr. Sonnenfeld] - Zweig, Stefan | WIST Quotations
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…