"Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold."

"He gave at the very first glance the impression of a significant, an uncommon, and unusually gifted man. His face was…"

"Steppenwolf threw me a quick look, a look which criticized both the words and the speaker of them—an unforgettable an…"

"“This morning I came on a passage in Novalis. … ‘Most men will not swim before they are able to.’ Is not that witty? …"

"There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on which neither p…"

"With our Steppenwolf it was so that in his conscious life he lived now as a wolf, now as a man, as indeed the case is…"

"All who got to love him, saw always only the one side in him. Many loved him as a refined and clever and interesting …"

"These men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indes…"

"As every strength may become a weakness (and under some circumstances must) so, on the contrary, may the typical suic…"

"The Steppenwolf stood entirely outside the world of convention, since he had neither family life nor social ambitions…"