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Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

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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
Doubts
Doubt
Asks
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Always

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My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.
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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war have not yet been republished there.
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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
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