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We cannot evade life's course, but we can school ourselves to be superior to fortune and also to look unflinchingly upon the most painful things.

— Hermann Hesse Gertrude (1910)

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In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

Demian (1919)

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

Demian (1919)

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

Demian (1919)

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Demian (1919)

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Steppenwolf (1927)

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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