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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

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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You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?
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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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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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Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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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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If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
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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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