Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
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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.