joi, 25 august 2016

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.” 

E. M. Forster - Room with a view

" How can he be unhappy when he is strong and alive? What more is one to give him? And think how he has been brought up--free from all...