"Life, to us, that means constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame..."

[Citations] "L'œuvre d'art modèle les cœurs et les esprits, les marque à son chiffre. Elle agit comme un condensateur de vie intérieure..."

“Nights, through dreams, tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

[Quotations] "I believe that we are on earth for this purpose, for contemplating and searching and listening for lost remote sounds..."

"However much my soul may be descended from the Romantics, I can find no peace of mind except in reading classical authors."

"Every person is, in part, 'his own project', and makes himself."

"The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being." William James

[Quotations] "While the rebel is an antinomian, merely rejecting the established, the outlaw is motivated by a quest for autonomy."

Quelques extraits choisis des oeuvres d'Hermann Hesse, à propos de la solitude qui lui était si chère.