Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It… — Hermann Hesse
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.
In the original German
Einsamkeit ist Unabhängigkeit, ich hatte sie mir gewünscht und mir erworben in langen Jahren. Sie war kalt, o ja, sie war aber auch still, wunderbar still und groß wie der kalte stille Raum, in dem die Sterne sich drehen.
Steppenwolf · 1927
★ 3.5Provenance
Current citation
Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.
Original citation
Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.
