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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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wisdom
sharing
foolishness
knowledge
teaching
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Hermann Hesse |
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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understanding
self-awareness
seekers
self-discovery
search
instinct
knowledge
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Hermann Hesse |
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f18f999
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We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
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uniqueness
respect
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Hermann Hesse |
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c7ef371
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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fate
meaning
learning-process
value
fortune
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Hermann Hesse |
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55a58be
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That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged -- to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
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universe
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Hermann Hesse |
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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Hermann Hesse |
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Hermann Hesse |
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Hermann Hesse |
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Hermann Hesse |
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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
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world
love
philosophy
hermann-hesse
respect
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Hermann Hesse |
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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suicide
grace
despair
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Hermann Hesse |
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or h..
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sex
making-love
sensuality
respect
touch
pleasure
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Hermann Hesse |
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
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strength
love
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Hermann Hesse |
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in eac..
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inspirational
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Hermann Hesse |
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5c74108
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One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.
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Hermann Hesse |
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.
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Hermann Hesse |
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ec82f9a
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I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
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truth
wisdom
self-destruction
self-mutilation
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Hermann Hesse |
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df81585
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Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Hermann Hesse |
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93fba22
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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
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humor
discordianism
eternity
joke
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Hermann Hesse |
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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; 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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individualism
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Hermann Hesse |
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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youth
maturity
existentialism
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Hermann Hesse |
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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
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Hermann Hesse |
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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against thi..
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passion
emotion
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Hermann Hesse |
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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
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time
water
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Hermann Hesse |
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gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Hermann Hesse |
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You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
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thoughts
living
life
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Hermann Hesse |
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I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
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Hermann Hesse |
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Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
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Hermann Hesse |
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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suffering
maturity
melancholy
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Hermann Hesse |
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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siddhartha
knowledge
question
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Hermann Hesse |
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Most men will not swim before they are able to." Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown."
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Hermann Hesse |
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Hermann Hesse |
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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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meaning-of-life
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Hermann Hesse |
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e1c8f89
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I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
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Hermann Hesse |
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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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Hermann Hesse |
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You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?
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Hermann Hesse |
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We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
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Hermann Hesse |