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Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

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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Become
Together
Best
Music
Way
People
Friends

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The truth is lived, not taught.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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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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You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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