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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
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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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... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
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The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Should we be mindful of dreams? Joseph asked. Can we interpret them? The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.
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In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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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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To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
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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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