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Gunnar Decker
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“And now that they had met and begun to see more of one another, she seemed to have fallen in love with him. A new problem with women loomed on the horizon for Hesse. That was the worst thing he could imagine: he found the prospect of entering into binding relationships with other people hard to take. This too was down to the heretic and the mystic in him, who shunned anything that threatened to formalize and institutionalize a living feeling - be that the established Church or the institution of marriage. This extreme self-centeredness was narcissistic. But in this, Hesse was far from being an exception among artists.”
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
“What a person reads, or how much he or she reads, is only of secondary importance. The only really important things was that one should always begin reading with a genuine sense of expectation, with complete immersion in the magic of the moment.”
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
“Regarding books - specifically their life-enhancing capacity and their ability to build bridges between yesterday, today, and tomorrow, the inner and outer life, the real and the ideal, and the body and the mind - Hesse became an evangelist of a secular spirit, which nevertheless still had a transcendental spark in it, and which in his own finite existence touched upon a little piece of immortality, He was not concerned with reality but with the mystery of life, which consisted at one and the same time of nature and spirit. This inherent contradiction culminated, at best, in the growth of civilization, at worst in barbarism. It was necessary to look the danger of the self-destruction of the individual and of the while squarely in the face; such a danger was part and parcel of the claim to truth. That was why this could not be achieved simply through avid reading - the decisive factor was always real life.”
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
― Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
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