BiographyType: Novelist, short story author, essayist, poet Born: 2 July 1877 Died: 9 August 1962 (aged 85) Born on July 2, 1877, in Calw, Germany, Hermann Hesse cultivated a career as a poet before releasing his debut novel, Peter Camenzind, in 1904. He eventually penned acclaimed books such as "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf "and "The Glass Bead Game", among other long-form works and novellas. Hesse protested German fighting in WWI and later earned the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died on August 9, 1962. |
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking - a detour, an error.
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.