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You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things of life. And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life when you are at home with the very things in it that are the deepest and most beautiful, spirit, art, and thought! That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still..
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cd69f95
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For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.
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klein-and-wagner
love
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e77e73e
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It must be granted that many aspects of the intellectual life of that era showed energy and grandeur. We moderns explain its concomitant uncertainty and falseness as a symptom of the horror which seized men when at the end of an era of apparent victory and success they found themselves suddenly confronting a void: great material scarcity, a period of political and military crises, and an accelerating distrust of the intellect itself, of its..
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921a34f
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For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, of madness, the police, insomnia, and also dread of death. But everything he dreaded he likewise desired and longed for at the same time. He was full of burning curiosity about suffering, destruction, persecution, madness and death.
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dread
klein-and-wagner
madness
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eed09bf
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Her little treasure of experiences opened up, and it was larger than she herself would have supposed.
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5c011f9
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Every day I did something wrong, and in the end I began to enjoy it.
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385e550
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I wanted to say a prayer and tried hard to remember one, but all I could think of was silly phrases such as 'Dear Sir' and 'Under the Circumstances'. In my sadness and confusion I mumbled those.
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c6f1504
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Here it is Saturday. You wouldn't know how good it feels after a hard week." "Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile."
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Hermann Hesse |
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12f92b7
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Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!
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e982b48
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Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying while nobody acknowledged the fact. The world tested bitter; life was agony.
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490cdf1
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But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived in the desire for the perpetuation of things as they are. For them humanity--which they loved as we did--was something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us humanity was a distant goal towards which we were marching, whose image no one yet know, whose laws were nowhere written down.
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humanity
will-of-nature
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01c4967
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he loved everything Siddhartha did and said and what he loved most was his spirit, his transcendent, fiery thoughts, his ardent will, his high calling. Govinda knew: he would not become a common Brahman, not a lazy official in charge of offerings; not a greedy merchant with magic spells; not a vain, vacuous speaker; not a mean, deceitful priest; and also not a decent, stupid sheep in the herd of the many.
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Don't you ever dream ... about another ... more beautiful life where nobody is envious of others, ... where people treat other people only with cheerfulness and consideration? Have you never thought that the world might be a totality, and that it might be beneficial and salutary to honour this unity of all things?
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f670c07
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it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
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0693366
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And this is now a teaching you will laugh about: love, oh Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.
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Hermann Hesse |
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c33aa1f
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He had loved and, by doing so, had found himself. But most people love in order to lose themselves.
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3398270
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It was the first time they had come to blows; but their cowardice outweighed even their anger, and no serious damage resulted.
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2fa2351
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I did not want to be like anyone else. I wanted to remain in my own skin, although it was often so constrictive... I had to find a bridge to reach people, I must learn to live with them without always feeling at a disadvantage.
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feeling-disadvantaged
herman-hesse
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f0a1baa
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I saw Demian's face and remarked that it was not a boy's face but a man's and then I saw, or rather became aware, that it was not really the face of a man either; it had something different about it, almost a feminine element. And for the time being his face seemed neither masculine nor childish, neither old nor young but a hundred years old, almost timeless and bearing the mark of other periods of history than our own.
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demian
feminine
masculine
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f08796c
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The things we see," said Pistorius gently, "are the things which are already in us. There is no reality beyond what we have inside us. That is why most people live such unreal lives; they take pictures outside themselves for the real ones and fail to express their own world. One can of course live contentedly enough in that situation. But once you know about the other you no longer have the choice of following the majority way. The way of t..
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emil-sinclair
pistorius
reality
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c6a7c14
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How unusually beautiful the forest was in the morning without anyone walking through it but him, column after column of spruce, a vast hall with a blue-green vault.
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fb90c5a
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Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
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hermann-hesse
hermann-hesse-gertrude
suicide
youth
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ada677c
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Das verzweifelte Nichtsterbenwollen ist der sicherste Weg zum ewigen Tode, wahrend Sterbenkonnen, Hullenabstreifen, ewige Hingabe des Ichs an die Wandlung fuhrt zur Unsterblichkeit.
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immortality
tod
unsterblichkeit
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fe6d2de
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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wisdom
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39da8a2
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Nao ha porque te compares com os demais, e se a natureza te criou para morcego, nao deves aspirar ser avestruz. as vezes te consideras por demais esquisito e te reprovas por seguires caminhos diversos dos da maioria. Deixa-te disso. Contempla o fogo, as nuvens e quando surgirem pressagios e as vozes soarem em tua alma abandona-te a elas sem perguntares se isso convem.
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love
max-demian
reflection
sinclair
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dr aGwsh w bwdn hm `bdt bwd hm gnh
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I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha.
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Viele sagen, sie "lieben die Natur". Das heisst, sie sind nicht abgeneigt, je und je ihre dargebotenen Reize sich gefallen zu lassen. Sie gehen hinaus und freuen sich uber die Schonheit der Erde, zertreten die Wiesen und reissen schliesslich eine Menge Blumen und Zweige ab, um sie bald wieder wegzuwerfen oder daheim verwelken zu lassen. So lieben sie die Natur."
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127f7c3
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Un veggente e un cieco: cosi camminavano a fianco; e se il cieco ignorava la sua cecita, il sollievo era solo suo.
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d4d65c9
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Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo el mismo; es tambien un punto unico, particularismo, importante siempre y singular, en el que se cruzan los fenomenos del Mundo, solo una vez de aquel modo y nunca mas.
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hesse
hombre
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c4e9116
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I already thought on that first evening of our meeting how glorious it would be to spend one's whole life regarded by those beautiful, candid eyes, and how it would then be impossible ever to think or do ill.
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love
love-at-first-sight
love-quotes
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0bbfc31
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Wie ein schuchternes Madchen blieb er sitzen und wartet, ob einer kame ihn zu holen, ein Starkerer und Mutigerer als er, der ihn mitrisse und zum Glucklichsein zwange.
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glück
mut
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f3d6a74
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Yes, one must find one's dream, then the path becomes easy. But no dream lasts forever, each one is replaced by a new one, and you shouldn't try to hold onto any of them
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inspirational
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24b427c
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Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering myself to their magic, their oblique message. Long tree-roots, coloured veins in rock, patches of oil floating on water, flaws in glass--all such things had a certain fascination for me, above all, water and fire, smoke, clouds, dust and expecially the swirling specks of colour which swam before my closed eyes.
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nature
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2a990f7
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I have learned that learning is impossible! I believe that in fact there is nothing in anything that we could call 'learning'. There is only a kind of knowledge that is everywhere, my friend, and that is Atman.
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The courtesan bent over him, took a long look at his face, at his eyes, which had grown tired. "You are the best lover," she said thoughtfully, "I ever saw. You're stronger than others, more supple, more willing. You've learned my art well, Siddhartha. At some time, when I'll be older, I'd want to bear your child. And yet, my dear, you've remained a Samana, and yet you do not love me, you love nobody. Isn't it so?" "It might very well be so..
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Perhaps you yourself have notions about the Glass Bead Game, expecting more of it than it will give you, or perhaps the reverse. There is no doubt that the Game has its dangers. For that very reason we love it; only the weak are sent out on paths without perils. But never forget what I have told you so often: our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite poles of a unity. Such is ..
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But what a path has this been! I had to pass through so much stupidity, through so much vices, through so many errors, through so much disgust and disappointments and woe, just to become a child again and to be able to start over.
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There was truly no pleasure and no honor in being a scholar or a writer. Those who entered the service of the rulers and devised slogans for them had jobs and livelihoods, but they suffered the contempt of the best among their fellows, and most of them surely suffered pangs of conscience also. Those who refused such service had to go hungry, live as outlaws, and die in misery or exile. A cruel, an incredibly harsh weeding out took place. Sc..
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ff4c952
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'drk bwDwH 'nh `l~ lrGm mn mHwlth lmtkrr@, w`l~ lrGm mn lTwq ldhy lm yfrqh qT ,fqd mrW bjn@ lHy@ mrwr lkrm. lqd `rf bjwr sryr wldh lmHtDr,lHb lHqyqy lwHyd,wlkn b`d fwt
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prndh tlsh my khnd t z drwn tkhm rh shwd. tkhm hmn <> st. khsy khh dlsh my khwhd bh dny byyd, wl byd dnyyy r wyrn khnd
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jdw w <> pyshynh y Syl dr flsfh w ndyshh hy jrf drd
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kn lsdhrt hdf wHd, hdf wHyd: n ymsy khly mn. khly mn l`Tsh khly mn lrGb@ khly mn lHlm khly mn lfrH wl'lm. n yfrq nfsh wly`wd ykwn 'n. n yjd lskyn@ khly lqlb, wynftH llm`jz@ fy tfkyr ynkr ldht, ldhy l y`wd dht wl 'n
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dda0c65
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There is, after all, always something wonderful and touchingly beautiful about a young man, for the first time released from the bonds of schooling, making his first ventures toward the infinite horizon of the mind. At this point he has not yet seen any of his illusions dissipated, or doubted either his own capacity for endless dedication or the boundlessness of the world of thought.
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learning
thought
youth
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