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1913. With an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Varnhagen lived during the crucial period of assimilation in Germany, when it seemed imperative for Jews to escape their Jewishness. From the Preface: The following pages are not a study in literary history; no search has been made for new... read more
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NOW and then we meet is life or in letters with a person-sometimes a man, but more often a a woman-who occupies no exceptional position, either through creative genius, or artistic execution, or even through learning, energy, or beauty, and yet this being exercises so decisive a power over our existence that our life comes under an indestructible influence, but at the same time one from which our own liberation proceeds.
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- Dewey: 200
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