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— Hermann Hesse"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire."
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Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
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