We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that…

We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

George Steiner

1967

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Steiner, George. Language and Silence. Faber and Faber, 1967.

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