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Arthur Schnitzler Quotes

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Arthur Schnitzler
Photography, Waiting, Able

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

Arthur Schnitzler
Mean, Sincerity, Practicals

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

Arthur Schnitzler
Loneliness, Mask, Disguise

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Arthur Schnitzler
Writing, Love And Death, Subjects

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler
Death, Dying, Liberty

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Arthur Schnitzler
Memories, Writing, Easy

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Arthur Schnitzler
Brother, Sleep, Doe
Arthur Schnitzler (1982). “Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler”, p.112, A&C Black

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Arthur Schnitzler
Creatures, Died

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arthur Schnitzler
Tasks, Illusion, Principal
Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

Arthur Schnitzler
Gratitude, Pride, Opportunity

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Arthur Schnitzler
Care, Want, Want To Be Happy
Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

Arthur Schnitzler
Hate, Charm, Love Or Hate
"Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy".

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