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I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

Gustav Meyrink

It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

Gustav Meyrink

Gustav Meyrink

Gustav Meyrink

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Born: January 19, 1868

Died: December 4, 1932 (aged 64)

Bio: Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem. He has been described as the "most respected German language writer in the field of supernatural fiction".

Known for:

The Golem (1914)
The Angel of the West Window (1927)
The White Dominican
Das grüne Gesicht (1916)
Walpurgisnacht (1917)

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