“He looked at her again, now with the vague abject shyness that older men often have with young women, as though asking their indulgence for no longer being young.”

— Stefan Zweig , book The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

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Austrian writer 1881–1942

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