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Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
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Painter
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Resistance Fighter
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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Everyone
Think
Thinking
Fast
Wait
Reach
Waiting
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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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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
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Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
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He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.
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It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
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Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.
Hermann Hesse
The tree does not die, it waits.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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