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The tree does not die, it waits.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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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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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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The art of love-giving and taking become one.
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The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
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One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Is not every life, every work fine?
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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