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dde868c What you could learn from me, you child, you have learned." "Oh no," cried Goldmund, "we didn't become friends to end it now! What sort of friendship would that be, that reached its goal after a short distance and then simply stopped? Are you tired of me? Have you no more affection for me?" Hermann Hesse
646840e Then the Yogi suddenly fell silent, and when I looked puzzled he shrugged and said: 'Don't you see yourself where the fault lies?' But I could not see it. At this point he recapitulated with astonishing exactness everything he had learned from me by his questioning. He went back to the first signs of fatigue, repugnance, and intellectual constipation, and showed me that this could have happened only to someone who had submerged himself disp.. Hermann Hesse
06abde8 When someone is seeking," said Siddartha, "It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for i.. Hermann Hesse
db3eb37 to identify the causes, so it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, and by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit like rays of light what is inside of them. Hermann Hesse
e951272 I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comparing it to some world I wished, I imagined, some kind of perfection I had made up, but to leave it as it is and to love it and to enjoy being a part of it. These, Govinda, are some of the thoughts which have come into my mind. Hermann Hesse
823a4ee Menakowt`yowne ankakhowt`yown e, es ink`s em ayn ts`ankats`el ow nvachel indz hamar erkar tarineri ent`ats`k`owm: Menakowt`yowne sarhn e, ayo, bayts` ew anaghmowk, zarmanali anaghmowk ow mets, inch`pes sarhe, anaghmowk taratsowt`yowne, ori mej sharzhvowm en astghere: Hermann Hesse
d138ef2 because to identify the causes, so it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, and by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit like rays of light what is inside of them. Hermann Hesse
90964c6 Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: "Your soul is the whole world." It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman. There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees." Hermann Hesse
b546719 el rostro de Siddharta brillaba con la misma clase de sonrisa. Su herida florecia, su sufrimiento se iluminaba, su yo habia entrado en la unidad. Hermann Hesse
bd40e62 I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases. Hermann Hesse
8d10836 The Steppenwolf, however, first threw up his sharp, closely cropped head and sniffed around nervously before he either made any answer or announced his name. "Oh, it smells good here," he said, and at that he smiled and my aunt smiled too." Hermann Hesse
fe40ea5 Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?" asked Govinda. "When someone is searching," said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always.. Hermann Hesse
dc07d15 He saw mankind going through life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured, he saw them scolding and insulting each other, he saw them complaining about pain at which a Samana would only smile, and .. Hermann Hesse
ee0b5a3 In the art of love," she said thoughtfully, "you are the best I've ever seen. You are stronger than others, more agile, more willing. Well have you learned my art, Siddhartha. Some day, when I am older, I wish to bear your child. And yet all this time, beloved, you have remained a Samana. Even now you do not love me; you love no one. Is it not so?" "It may be so," Siddhartha said wearily. "I am like you. You, too, do not love--how else coul.. Hermann Hesse
2f09b4b To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far better one than to keep his reason and his thoughts, with all the rest that made him human, and yet live on alone, unloved, in sadness. sadness love unloved Hermann Hesse
ad19dd6 One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many things looked at one with such challenge and promise, rousing such longing: an evening star, a bluebell, a lake green with reeds, the eye of a human being or of a cow, and at times it seemed as if the very next moment something never seen but long yearned for must happen, as if a veil must drop from everything. But then it passed, and nothing .. meaning Hermann Hesse
f0d648c Beautiful was the world, colourful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself. Hermann Hesse
a7b604b Tan pronto estaba yo en el cielo como en el infierno, la mayoria de las veces en los dos sitios a un tiempo. Hermann Hesse
afb6385 The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy. happy independence morning-person night-owl steppenwolf morning evening Hermann Hesse
f8fc94b He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different. Hermann Hesse
a34744f If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no other word but: dread. It was dread, dread and uncertainty, that I felt in all those hours of shattered childhood felicity: dread of punishment, dread of my own conscience, dread of stirrings in my soul which I considered forbidden and criminal. dread Hermann Hesse
d25fe87 Habia amado y, a traves del amor, se habia encontrado a si mismo. La mayoria ama para perderse. Hermann Hesse
b0f17cc Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you went? To make all sorts of people love you a little and tease you a little and be a little grateful to you? Hermann Hesse
eaf023a There are a good many people of the same kind as Harry. Many artists are of his kind. These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. Thee is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood and the father's; the capacity for happiness and the capacity for suffering; and in just such a state of enmity and entanglement towards and within each other as were the wolf and man in Harry. And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at .. artists happiness Hermann Hesse
d049074 I don't want to make a gift of myself, I want to be won. Hermann Hesse
9d9bdad Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. Hermann Hesse
ee44752 An occasionally, I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn't last. sadness Hermann Hesse
04e4101 how easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism Hermann Hesse
557acbf What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? Hermann Hesse
11d2204 kl , lm tkn hnk qw@ fy l`lm fy ws`h 'n tqn`ny bkhtbr lr`b lhy'l lmwjh@ 'khr~ m` dhty , lmwjh@ `d@ tnZym 'khr~ , tjsWd 'khr , Hyth ln ybq~ hnlk fy 'khr ldrb slm wl skyn@ , bl tdmyr 'bdy lldht mn 'jl tjdyd ldht. Hermann Hesse
838c199 Everyone lives through this difficult period. For the average person it's the point in his life when the demands of his own life clash most violently with the world around him, when his forward path must be fought for most bitterly. Many experience this death and rebirth, which are our destiny, only this once in their life, when childhood decays and slowly disintegrates, when all that has become dear to us is about to leave us and we sudden.. Hermann Hesse
028158e That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. Hermann Hesse
19e6195 Im Nebel Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern! Einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein, Kein Baum sieht den andern, Jeder ist allein. Voll von Freunden war mir die Welt, Als noch mein Leben licht war; Nun, da der Nebel fallt, Ist keiner mehr sichtbar. Wahrlich, keiner ist weise, Der nicht das Dunkel kennt, Das unentrinnbar und leise Von allen ihn trennt. Seltsam, Im Nebel zu wandern! Leben ist Einsamsein. Hermann Hesse
6c59e92 Es ist viel flacher, wenn du fur etwas Gutes und Ideales kampfst und nun meinst, du mussest es auch erreichen. Sind denn Ideale zum Erreichen da? Leben wir denn, wir Menschen, um den Tod abzuschaffen? Nein, wir leben, um ihn zu furchten und dann wieder zu lieben, und gerade seinetwegen gluht das bisschen Leben manchmal eine Stunde lang so schon. ideale ideals tod Hermann Hesse
1b903a2 Ach Harry, wir mussen durch so viel Dreck und Unsinn tappen, um nach Hause zu kommen! Und wir haben niemand, der uns fuhrt, unser einziger Fuhrer ist das Heimweh. Hermann Hesse
2f02100 and out of the awareness of sameness grew the desire for differentiation. Hermann Hesse
d27a018 you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force. persistence strength water patience Hermann Hesse
80e2553 This wind, into which I am climbing, is fragrant of beyonds and distances, of watersheds and foreign languages, of mountains and southern places. It is full of promise. Hermann Hesse
bb63ed9 Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any .. Hermann Hesse
3dda057 Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" Hermann Hesse
daf57f8 The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly--yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person. Hermann Hesse
57e89f8 Two thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace of mind and better feelings by them, and the end and aim of it all is to have the war over again, the next war that draws nearer and nearer, and it will be a good deal more horrible than the last. All that is perfectly clear and simple. Anyone c.. Hermann Hesse
aeae52b Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth. Hermann Hesse
3d9e1c2 You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. Hermann Hesse