"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
"As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of moralityonly by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits."
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Source: Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books
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