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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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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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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)
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He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.
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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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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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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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Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
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Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.
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In the beginning was the myth.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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