“People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.”
― Beware of Pity
― Beware of Pity
“She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.”
― The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
― The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
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Rela’s 2025 Year in Books
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