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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
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
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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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Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.
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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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And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
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During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
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And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
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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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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
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The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
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