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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Resistance Fighter
Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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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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It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
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All this had always been and he had never seen it he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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The art of love-giving and taking become one.
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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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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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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
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The tree does not die, it waits.
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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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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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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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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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