“Your life will not be flat and dull even
though you know that your war will never be victorious. It is far flatter, Harry, to fight for something good
and ideal and to know all the time that you are bound to attain it. Are ideals attainable? Do we live to
abolish death? No--we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's sake it is that our spark
of life glows for an hour now and then so brightly.”
―
Hermann Hesse,
Steppenwolf
