No tengo nada contra esta felicidad, oh no, la amo y estoy agradecido. Es hermosa como un día de sol en medio de una semana de lluvias. Pero siento que no puede durar. Esta felicidad también es improd...
No person has ever been completely himself, but each one strives to become so, some gropingly, others more lucidly, according to his abilities. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth...
No matter how inflexibly the world was clamoring for war and heroism, honor and other outmoded ideals, no matter how remote and unlikely every voice that apparently spoke up for humanity sounded, all...
Nada que hubiera terminado era una pena. Una pena eran el hoy el ahora, las incontables horas y días que había perdido, que sólo aguanté, que no trajeron regalos ni conmociones.
My soul breathed once more. My eyes were opened. There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only to snatch up my scattered images and raise my life as Harry Haller and as the Steppenwolf to...
Mit Kummer, und doch auch mit Lachen, gedachte er jener Zeit.
Ma egli aveva trovato finalmente con Narciso il rapporto che gli conveniva,non più di dipendenza, ma di libertà e di reciprocità.
L’époque et le monde, l’argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux être médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n’est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ains...
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable sort of religious education if you did not know th...
Let thethings be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion,and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear andworthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Theref...
La solitude est l'indépendance, je l'avais souhaitée et acquise au cours de longues années. Elle était froide, oh! oui, mais elle était calme, merveilleusement calme et immense comme l'espace silencie...
Jos olisin muusikko, voisin vaikeuksitta kirjoittaa kaksiäänisen melodian, melodian, joka muodostuu kahdesta linjasta, kahdesta sävel- ja nuottirivistä, jotka vastaavat toisiaan, täydentävät toisiaan,...
I’ve had to experience despair, I’ve had to sink down to the most foolish one of all thoughts, to the thought of suicide, in order to be able to experience divine grace, to hear Om again,
It’s so good to know that inside us there’s a self that knows everything! I
It’s so good to know that inside us there’s a self that knows everything!
It was the first time they had come to blows; but their cowardice outweighed even their anger, and no serious damage resulted.
It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism I had brought with me.
Initially all he dreamed and wished for, eventually it became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pl...
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats,
In reality, however, every ego, so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities....