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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse
Lying, Psychology, Interpretation
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Hermann Hesse
Lying, Mean, Reality
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

Hermann Hesse
Dream, Lying, Night
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Hermann Hesse
Lying, World, Taste

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