“Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.”

— Stefan Zweig , book The Post Office Girl

The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)

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