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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

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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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
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So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
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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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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
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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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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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Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
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Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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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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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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