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What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
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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Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.
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Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Youth ends when egotism does maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
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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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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
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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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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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lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
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