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My gaze searches for something in the room to anchor my thoughts, now having to write a short text, I feel the urgency to resist impulsive conclusions, as it catches on an extremely thin paperback on my shelf: Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story. Reflexively, I read the blurb on the back.
“For only ambition is sparked by the accident of success and easy accomplishment, but nothing so magnificently uplifts the heart as the downfall of a person in battle against the invincible power of fate— this most sublime of all tragedies, which is sometimes crafted by a poet, and a thousand times by life itself.” Stefan Zweig
The quote reads generalizing, but I’ve also never actually read the book, even though I possess a collection of his works. As the famous book is really incredibly thin, the thinnest in my entire shelf and it sits right in the middle, I finally read it.
However, I never come...More
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My gaze searches for something in the room to anchor my thoughts, now having to write a short text, I feel the urgency to resist impulsive conclusions, as it catches on an extremely thin paperback on my shelf: Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story. Reflexively, I read the blurb on the back.
“For only ambition is sparked by the accident of success and easy accomplishment, but nothing so magnificently uplifts the heart as the downfall of a person in battle against the invincible power of fate— this most sublime of all tragedies, which is sometimes crafted by a poet, and a thousand times by life itself.” Stefan Zweig
The quote reads generalizing, but I’ve also never actually read the book, even though I possess a collection of his works. As the famous book is really incredibly thin, the thinnest in my entire shelf and it sits right in the middle, I finally read it.
However, I never come...More
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