Hesse

Hesse

Hesse /ˈhɛs/ or Hessia (German: Hessen, Hessian dialect: Hesse ) is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.

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    What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

    What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

    Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)