"The isolation of a self cut off from a society into which it sends only masks, or 'figure', is a recurrent refrain in Goethe's letters in the early Weimar period, which only intensifies after his move to the apparently more social world of the house on Frauenplan."
-- Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Vol. I: The Poetry of Desire, Nicholas Boyle, 1991, p. 351.
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