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In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (18811942), Austrian writer. Sternstunden der Menschheit (Stellar Moments in Human History), p. 45, trans. by Marion Sonnenfeld, S. Fischer Verlag (1953).

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