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This book is simply one of the best books I’ve ever read. Almost done… RTC!!

“Every artist harbors a mysterious duality: if life tosses him about stormily he yearns for peace; but no sooner is peace given him than he longs for the old agitation.” p. 399

“I had thrown off the burden that had rested on my soul and had been restored to myself; in the very hour in which everything in me was “No” against the times, I had found the “Yes” to myself. p. 288

Zweig on the publication of his anti-war play “Thersites” during World War I.

“Distance from home alters spiritual standards.”
p. 211