For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are … - Stefan Zweig

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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Stefan Zweig

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

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