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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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So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)
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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
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Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.
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Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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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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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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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
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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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. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
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Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
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Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
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