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Stefan Zweig - The World of Yesterday (1942)

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All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.

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In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

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It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

Born: November 28, 1881
Died: February 22, 1942 (aged 60)
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