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"He was embracing a woman in whom he could allow himself to dissolve in order to be reborn again. On her breast, the moment of the last tender touch and the flash of new desire merged into a single moment of never-before-seen luxury." These words from The Return of Casanova could serve as a tuning fork to the entire book by Austrian impressionist writer Arthur Schnitzler, if it were not permeated by the theme of the tragedy of human existence: the inability of old age to restore youth.