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lukas
, March 27, 2015
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"It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream-individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization."
I've read a number of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's books recently because Wes Anderson, one of my favorite directors, cited him as an influence on "The Grand Budapest Hotel." This 1939 novel is one of his longest and one of his most psychologically astute. Also check out "Confusion" and "The Post-Office Girl." Zweig fled the Continent when the Nazis took power and settled with his wife in Brazil, where they killed themselves in 1942.
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