“Well, look at an animal, a cat, a dog, or a bird, or one of those beautiful great beasts in the zoo, a puma or a giraffe. You can’t help seeing that all of them are right. They’re never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don’t flatter and they don’t intrude. They don’t pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. Don’t you agree?”
They are what they are. Natural.
- From "Steppenwolf " by Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German-born Swiss poet, novelist and painter. Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
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