"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."
"Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it."
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Source: Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books
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