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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig
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Stefan Zweig
Age: 60 †
Born: 1881
Born: November 28
Died: 1942
Died: February 22
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But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.
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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
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It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.
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