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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
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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.
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The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.
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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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I have always been a great dreamer in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The tree does not die, it waits.
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Each man carries the vestiges of his birth the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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