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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

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
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The tree does not die, it waits.
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The art of love-giving and taking become one.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration it leaves you again in the desert.
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Opinions mean nothing they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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In the beginning was the myth.
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
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You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
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The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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