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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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
Poet
Resistance Fighter
Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
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Youth ends when egotism does maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?
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For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.
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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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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
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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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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
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So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration it leaves you again in the desert.
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Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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