Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig

 

"...for if he had embraced me then, if he had asked me then, I would have gone to the ends of the earth with him, I would have dishonoured my name and the name of my children—I would have eloped with him, caring nothing for what people would say or the dictates of my own reason..."   

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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig

Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans

 

"She was a routine French mannequin, nice enough, with a sweet face, a small mouth and nose, and the glossy eyes of a Pomeranian. On the street, smartly dressed in fine furs, her eyes shaded by her hat, she was quite exciting. But in the corridors and restaurants of the Splendide, where women of fortunate faces and figures were as common as champagne bottles, no one turned around to look at her."

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Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans

Fantastic Night & other stories by Stefan Zweig

"I am recording my experience only in order to have it securely and, so to speak, objectively fixed before me, to enjoy it again in my emotions while at the same time understanding it intellectually. It was quite wrong, quite untrue when I said just now that I wanted to draw a line under it by writing it down; on the contrary, I want to make what I lived through all too quickly even more alive, to have it warm and breathing beside me, so that I can clasp it to me again and again."

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Fantastic Night & other stories by Stefan Zweig