"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."
"One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion."
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Source: Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.126, Pushkin Press
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