"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me. This favorite wish was a pretty one, — a refuge."

"Perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious man, pure in heart..."

"Il est très tard. Tu es allongé dans ton lit et tu ne peux pas dormir."

Hermann Hesse ; Casa Rossa, 1937 Hermann Hesse Propos sur les joies modestes de l’existence (1899) Des pans entiers de la population...

'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."

"Tout ce qui est visible est la manifestation d’une signification ; la nature entière est image, langage, hiéroglyphe coloré."

"Sheer misery makes one profound. — But here there are no problems, mere existence needs no justification, thinking becomes a game."

"I lie and gaze into the evening skv. which for hours has been slowly covering itself with small, silent, tangled clouds."

"There is a kind of rainy weather that is refreshing and cheerful. Today's weather is not."

"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days."

"Merci pour ton message de Nouvel An. Il est triste et déprimé et je ne comprends cela que trop bien."

"Toute l'oeuvre de Hermann Hesse n'est que la réponse à un mal d'être qui, dans son adolescence, le pousse à des crises de désespoir."

"A spa such as this can destroy the magic and ravish the beauty of the most beautiful valley in the Black Forest."

"From all this desolation, .. I found my own form of escape through something I had never done before - by beginning to draw and paint."

"Cela me réconforte de penser que je suis votre contemporain."

"AN OLD MAN named Chunglang, which means ‘Master Rock’, owned a small farm in the mountains."

"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."

“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."

"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."

"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."

"Oh, how he yearned to feel the vibration between himself and everything in the world !"

"Old age is a stage in our lives, ... it has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and needs."

"Stone on the path, you are stronger than me ! Tree in the meadow, you will outlast me, and perhaps so will you, little raspberry bush..."

" "Pour moi, une vie sans musique serait insupportable... je la dédaignerai et m'en débarrasserai."