Demian: A Novel
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
For after all, he thought now, lying in the warmth of Takver’s sleep, it was joy they were both after—the completeness of being. If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Takver
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
Thomas Mann’s Confessions of Felix Krüll,