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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
Novelist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Resistance Fighter
Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
Communication
Soon
Becomes
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Littles
Little
Everything
Spoken
Different
Loud

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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.
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During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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Opinions mean nothing they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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