“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
More from Herman Hesse
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“I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art?…”
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