Hermann Hesse. Gertrude (№ 370575)

Human life seems to me a dark, sad night that it would be impossible to endure, if here and there not a flash of lightning, whose unexpected light so comforting and wonderful, that these seconds can wipe out and justify the years of darkness.
Dark, inconsolable darkness - a terrible cycle of daily life. Why would a person rises in the morning, eats and drinks and then lies down again? The child, savage, healthy young man, the animal does not suffer from this cycle faceless things and Affairs. Who does not suffer from the thoughts that pleased with the lift in the morning, eating and drinking, he finds in it satisfaction and the other does not want. But who has lost the sense of naturalness of all this, he eagerly and keenly looking for during the days of the true moments of life, flashes which give happiness and deadens the sense of time with all the reflections on the meaning and purpose of life in General.