“Nothing was more excruciating to the hunger artist than such watchers. They depressed him.” A Hunger Artist
“All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie. . . .” Gooseberries
”‘I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because your heart is blind.‘” Stranger
But each person is not only himself, he is also the unique, very special point, important and noteworthy in every instance, where the phenomena of the world meet, once only and never again in the same way. Demian
Quotes