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I think Hermann Hesse is a beautiful writer, and his passages are pure poetry upon the page. He also speaks to me on succh a deep emotional and spiritual level. I feel a connection to him through his words. I will never forget my experince of reading Siddhartha, and how deeply that book affected me, how much I was moved by it. I have recently been reading another story by Hesse, Youth, Beautiful Youth, and this passage really spoke to me. I think it is beautiful.
To be up and about outdoors at night, beneath the silent sky and beside quietly flowing water, is always mysterious and stirs the soul to its very depths. At such times we are close to our origins; we feel a kinship with animals and plants, feel dim memories of a primeval life before houses and town were built, when man, the homeless wanderer, could regard the woods, streams, mountains, wolves, and hawks as his equals and could love them as friends or hate them as deadly foes. Night also removes our customary sense of community life, when lights are no longer heard, one who is still awake feels solitary and sees himself parted from others and thrown upon his own resources.
2:29 PM - 7/23/2008 -
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