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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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In the beginning was the myth.
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lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
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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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Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.
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Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The art of love-giving and taking become one.
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Youth ends when egotism does maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
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I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
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There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
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In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
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