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Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
Novelist
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Philosopher
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Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
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I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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Opinions mean nothing they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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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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