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“Their return home to their father and a good life was always so satisfying and splendid; I realized keenly that that was the only proper, good, and desirable outcome, but the part of the story that took place among the wicked and the lost was by far the more appealing, and, if one were free to state and admit it, it was sometimes actually a downright shame that the prodigal repented and was found again”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
The Inspector General • Nikolai Gogol“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”
War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy“To stand in the midst of ... this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity in existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning ... that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human has this feeling just because he is human.”
The Gay Science • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche