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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable sort of religious education if you did not know that.

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Clever talk is absolutely worthless. All you do in the process is lose yourself. And to lose yourself is a sin. One has to be able to crawl completely inside oneself, like a tortoise.

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For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force.

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Nor will suicide really solve your problem, unhappy Steppenwolf.

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Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

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One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

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This is the art of life. You may yourself as an artist develop the game of your life and lend it animation. You may complicate and enrich it as you please. It lies in your hands.

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No permanence is ours; we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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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.

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Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.

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Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult.

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

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Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?

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I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

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I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

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Now true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.

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And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the lap of plenty and ease; I needed torment and persecution.

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I felt that some day I would awaken from those beautiful images of love and once be alone, in the cold world of the others, where there was only solitude or struggle for me, not peace or participation.

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You are right, Steppenwolf, right a thousand times over, and yet you must go to the wall. You are much too exacting and hungry for this simple, easygoing and easily contented world of today. You have a dimension too many.