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Stefan Zweig

“While in its incessant fear and prudishness [society] was constantly tracking down the indecent in all forms of life, literature, art, and dress, in order to avoid every possible incitement, it was actually forced to think constantly of the indecent.”

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
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The World of Yesterday The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
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