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في الشمس العتيقة QUOTES

1 " human life, even upon a small stage, always offers an amusing drama and one well worth consideration. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

2 " they experienced the greater part of their destinies and satisfactions, their joys and sorrows, more in imagination than in tangible reality. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

3 " It was the first time they had come to blows; but their cowardice outweighed even their anger, and no serious damage resulted. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

4 " and the town was rid of one more pensioner, which no one regretted. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

5 " when a great talker grows silent, it means that he is well on the road toward the churchyard. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

6 " The realization of the infinite and the eternal, the longing for the inexpressible, innate in this soul as in others but neglected and forgotten through a whole lifetime, found now, when it swelled up, no outlet, and attempted to express itself in grimaces, gestures, and tones of the strangest kind, absurdly and laughably enough. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة

7 " But there was a real power behind it all; and the uncomprehending desire for death was certainly the first great and, in the higher sense, rational movement which this small soul had known for years. "

― Hermann Hesse , في الشمس العتيقة