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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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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
Hope
Death
Great
Love
Fulfilled
Happiness

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When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
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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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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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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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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
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Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
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