Fran Romanova’s Reviews > The Steppenwolf > Status Update

'Well, look at an animal, a cat, a dog, or one of those beautiful great beasts in a Zoo, a puma or a giraffe. You can't help seeing that all of them are right. They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't want to impress you. No play-acting. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or starts in the sky.'

'But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission'

'Does it need time to be religious?'
'Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, you must be independent of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odeon Bar and all that'

“He was much too strong and hardy, too proud and spirited. Instead of destroying his personality they succeeded only in teaching him to hate himself”