Good luck to the farmer! Good luck to the man who owns this place, the man who works it, the faithful, the virtuous!
I can love him, I can revere him, I can envy him. But I have wasted half my life trying to live his life. I wanted to be something that I was not.
I even wanted to be a poet and a middle class person at the same time. I wanted to be an artist and a man of fantasy, but I also wanted to be a good man, a man at home.
It all went on for a long time, till I knew that a man cannot be both and have both, that I am a nomad and not a farmer, a man who searches and not a man who keeps.
HERMANN HESSE
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