2 months later I will be 27 and I review the books I've read every year...
one of the best books I just read this year was SteppenWolf by Herman Hesse, that was not just a book, that was not just a novel...It was a cure..many introverted peaple and those who are different like this book...
It really made me feel better and fight depression in many situations...
Here are some wonderful quotes from Herman Hesse that I live with
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
“Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.”
“There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.”
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”
“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”
There are lots of other quotes too..
but these are the favorites I highlighted and underlined..
this book needs to be lived..