I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energ… - Hermann Hesse

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.

Leo looked at me with a warning glance to be patient, silent and respectful, and disappeared amongst the crowd... I perceived familiar faces, serious or smiling. I saw the figure of Albertus Magnus, the ferryman Vasudeva, the artist Klingsor, and others. p. 68

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.