"It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker."

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Source : Lion Feuchtwanger (1940). “Paris Gazette”, London : Hutchinson

Lion Feuchtwanger

#Strong Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Weak Quotes

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”
“Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.”
“Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
“The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.”
“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.”
“I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force.”
“Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.”
“He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.”

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