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Austrian author and playwright (d. 1931), Birth: 15-5-1862, Death: 21-10-1931
1.
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
Arthur Schnitzler

2.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur Schnitzler

3.
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

4.
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
Arthur Schnitzler

5.
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
Arthur Schnitzler

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6.
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.
Arthur Schnitzler

7.
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

8.
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

Quote Topics by Arthur Schnitzler: Writing Care Loneliness Pride Memories Opportunity Doe Practicals Principal Photography Tasks Waiting Creatures Death Charm Love And Death Want To Be Happy Mask Want Disguise Gratitude Easy Brother Sincerity Sleep Mean Illusion Able Died Dying
9.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler

10.
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
Arthur Schnitzler

11.
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
Arthur Schnitzler

12.
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