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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.
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And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral we have already climbed many steps.
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The river has taught me to listen you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
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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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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
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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, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
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Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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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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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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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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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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