In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day. Peter Camenzind (1904)
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. Peter Camenzind (1904)
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! Peter Camenzind (1904)