The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation
Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.
Current Citation
Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.