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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
Hermann Hesse
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
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For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.
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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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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
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