How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude i…

Hermann Hesse
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. ✨ Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2002). The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel, p.83, Macmillan
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.169, Macmillan
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. ✨ Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays.

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