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Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
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Youth ends when egotism does maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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