Hermann Hesse Quotes

Although I Know Very Little Of The Steppenwolf's Life, I Have All The Same Good Reason To Suppose That He Was Brought Up By Devoted But Severe And Very Pious Parents And Teachers In Accordance With That Doctrine That Makes The Breaking Of The Will The Corner-stone Of Education And Upbringing. But In This Case The Attempt To Destroy The Personality And To Break The Will Did Not Succeed. He Was Much Too Strong And Hardy, Too Proud And Spirited. Instead Of Destroying His Personality They Succeeded Only In Teaching Him To Hate Himself. It Was Against Himself That, Innocent And Noble As He Was, He Directed During His Whole Life The Whole Wealth Of His Fancy, The Whole Of His Thought; And In So Far As He Let Loose Upon Himself Every Barbed Criticism, Every Anger And Hate He Could Command, He Was, In Spite Of All, A Real Christian And A Real Martyr.

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