"Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore."
"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."
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Source: Beware of Pity. Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.
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