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“...the city usually only dulled and interrupted him. He required quiet, and to keep himself to himself, more than any writer he’d known. He was a shy beast who loved his burrow.”

Book:The Dante Chamber

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The Dante Chamber

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Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl, born on October 2, 1975, is an American novelist known for his historical and mystery novels. His works are characterized by the combination of historical events with fictional stories, creating captivating narratives. more

“For I have indeed been torn from all my roots, even from the earth that nourished them, more entirely than most in our times. I was born in 1881 in the great and mighty empire of the Habsburg Monarchy, but you would look for it in vain on the map today; it has vanished without trace. I grew up in Vienna, an international metropolis for two thousand years, and had to steal away from it like a thief in the night before it was demoted to the status of a provincial German town. My literary work, in the language in which I wrote it, has been burnt to ashes in the country where my books made millions of readers their friends. So I belong nowhere now, I am a stranger or at the most a guest everywhere. Even the true home of my heart’s desire, Europe, is lost to me after twice tearing itself suicidally to pieces in fratricidal wars. Against my will, I have witnessed the most terrible defeat of reason and the most savage triumph of brutality in the chronicles of time. Never—and I say so not with pride but with shame—has a generation fallen from such intellectual heights as ours to such moral depths.”

Fascism 20th Century Vienna

Book:The World of Yesterday

Source: The World of Yesterday

“Without denying that adaptation may be one of God's methods of operation, it may be definitely said, that an intelligent Master of the universe, in which we believe, has the power to prepare an earth to fit the needs of man; or fit man to meet the conditions of earth. If He were not able to do so, He would be inferior to His creatures who build houses for human comfort, and equip them with heating, freezing, and many other devices. The argument for adaptation, standing alone, requires chance as a creative force. That we do not and cannot believe.”

Religion Evolution

Book:An Understandable Religion

Source: An Understandable Religion

“When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?”

Vienna Playwrights Austrio Hungary Dual Monarchy

Author:Arthur Schnitzler

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.”