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The tree does not die, it waits.

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
Novelist
Painter
Philosopher
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Resistance Fighter
Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
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The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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