“The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.”

—  Hermann Hesse , book Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p. 154

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