"Peter Camenzind" Quotes
A young man named Peter Camenzind embarks on a journey of self-discovery and explores the complexities of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.
fiction | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Every new beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book must be read in reverse and upside down at times.
There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless.
For the first time in my life I felt beautiful. Finally, I had the feeling that I had become someone.
I saw that one could not love and be wise.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
The art of reading is slowly dying, that it is an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.
