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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Hermann Hesse

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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
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Imaginatively
World
Reflecting
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.
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He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
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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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A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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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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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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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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