The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Statt Lust Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt todlicher Glut ein angelehme Temperatur

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.