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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
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I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
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Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.
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