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Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Book by Hermann Hesse · 5 quotes · Longing For Home, Tree, Steppenwolf

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“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”