The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Hermann Hesse Quote
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
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