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Steppenwolf, a novel by Hermann Hesse, explores the inner conflict of its protagonist, Harry Haller, who struggles with his dual nature as both a solitary intellectual and a part of society. He feels alienated from the world around him and grapples with his identity, embodying the characteristics of a "steppenwolf," a creature that symbolizes his wild and untamed instincts as opposed to his refined, cultured side. This duality leads to profound existential turmoil, as...

Everything done, even the most innocent in appearance, is already guilty, already corrupted; it is thrown into the unclean flow of formation and can never swim back against the current again. — Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

What happens in me during rare moments of joy, which for me is pleasure, experience, ecstasy, and exaltation, the world perhaps only seeks in poetic works, and in life considers madness. And indeed, if the world is right, if those music halls, mass parties, and Americanized people are satisfied with such small things, then I am guilty, then I am mad, then I, as I often called myself, am a wild wolf of the steppe, a creature lost in a foreign and incomprehensible world, which no longer finds its homeland, air, or food. — Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

There was nothing to charm or tempt me. Everything was old, withered, grey, limp and spent, and stank of staleness and decay. Dear God, how was it possible? How had I, with the wings of youth and poetry, come to this? Art and travel and the glow of ideals - and now this! How had this paralysis of hatred against myself and everyone else, this obstruction of all feeling, this mud-hell of an empty heart and despair crept over me so softly and so slowly? — Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

The sympathetic but sentimental man who sings the song of the blessed child also longs to return to nature, innocence, and the beginnings, but has completely forgotten that children are by no means blessed, that they face many conflicts, many inner struggles, and are capable of suffering. — Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

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