For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was t…

Hermann Hesse
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.27, Macmillan
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.27, Macmillan

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