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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

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
Values
Given
Something
Siddhartha
Robbed
Value
Greater

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In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral we have already climbed many steps.
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The river is everywhere.
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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
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lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
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The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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