“I have had to experience

so much stupidity,

so many vices,

so much error,

so much nausea,

disillusionment and sorrow,

just in order

to become a child again and begin anew.

I had to experience despair,

I had to sink

to the greatest mental depths,

to thoughts of suicide,

in order to experience grace.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha