I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Hermann HesseI shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
Hermann HesseSolitude 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.
Hermann HesseOnly within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.
Hermann Hesse