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Eine Handvoll Glück

by Barbara Noack

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“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962

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“And I don't want to live like a fleeting shadow, a consumptive, no. I want to live genuinely, with the true warmth and in full bloom. I want to be a gay worshipper in the temple of the muses rather than a mere hunted prey. Each day I ask in my prayers for the ability to preserve my own inner world rather than become stifled, so that the sweet poison, which I see thousands of people sipping, may not consume me as well.”
― Hermann Hesse, Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962

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“I'm always running into the Sunday God of churchgoing Christians and cannot help noticing that he doesn't help out much on weekdays.”
― Hermann Hesse, Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962

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