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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Hermann Hesse
Class, Optimism, Contentment
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Hermann Hesse
Contentment, Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf pt. 1 (1927)

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Hermann Hesse
Feelings, Contentment, Harmony

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