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“To distract himself from his disastrous passion, he took the first subject which came along, and decided to write a History of the Renaissance. On his table he piled up humanists, philosophers, and poets... Gradually the soothing nature of the work calmed him. And delving into the personalities of others he forgot his own, which is perhaps the only way to avoid suffering from it.”