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Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognize you and understand you? …

Because it’s the same for me as for you, because I am alone exactly as you are,

because I’m as little fond of life and men and myself as you are and can put up with them as little.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. …

You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things of life.

And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life

when you are at home with the very things in it that are the deepest and most beautiful, spirit, art, and thought!

That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister.

I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy.

And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy.

Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?

- Steppenwolf - Hesse

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Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognize you and understand you? …

Because it’s the same for me as for you, because I am alone exactly as you are,

because I’m as little fond of life and men and myself as you are and can put up with them as little.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. …

You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things of life.

And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life

when you are at home with the very things in it that are the deepest and most beautiful, spirit, art, and thought!

That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister.

I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy.

And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy.

Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?

- Steppenwolf - Hesse