What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in…

Hermann Hesse
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What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.31, Macmillan
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