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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.

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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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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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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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
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Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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