A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rag…

Hermann Hesse
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.27, Macmillan
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