Tao Te Ching

“Considered as a whole, Hesse's achievement can hardly be matched in modern literature... Hesse has little imagination in the sense that Shakespeare or Tolstoy can be said to have imagination, but his ideas have a vitality that more than makes up for it. Before all, he is a novelist who used the novel to explore the problem: What should we do with our lives? The man who is interested to know how he should live instead of merely taking life as it comes, is automatically an Outsider.”

— Colin Wilson 1931 – 2013 CE
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