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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
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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Siddhartha
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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