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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

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
Strikes
Mere
Nothing
Suffices
Lightning

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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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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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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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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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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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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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Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
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It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
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The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
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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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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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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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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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