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Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.
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resolve
soul
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In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter how necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace less beautiful,
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This is why I am continuing my travels--not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.
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If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.
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impermanence
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Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.
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love
parenting
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The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life as something far more than horrible, far more than barbarous. Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduce..
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f686c6d
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There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves.
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That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier.
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Hermann Hesse |
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a5f5a83
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No one liked him, no one was on intimate terms with him... he was a good person but took no particular trouble to please anyone.
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Hermann Hesse |
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Aber heute weiss ich nicht mehr, was ich eigentlich will und wunsche. Fruher war alles einfach, so einfach wie die Buchstaben in einem Lesebuch. Jetzt ist nichts mehr einfach, nicht einmal mehr die Buchstaben. Alles hat viele Bedeutungen und Gesichter bekommen. Ich weiss nicht, was aus mir werden soll, ich kann jetzt nicht an solche Sachen denken.
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He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not believe What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, Will give little credence to my song.
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Hermann Hesse |
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I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, completely unreserved music, the kind that makes you feel that a man is shaking heaven and hell. I believe I love that kind of music because it is amoral. Everything else is so moral that I'm looking for something that isn't. Morality has always seemed to me insufferable.
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Hermann Hesse |
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a314683
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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.
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Hermann Hesse |
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9a86d09
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Everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
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Hermann Hesse |
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You take the old Goethe much too seriously, my young friend. You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them an injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred ..
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Hermann Hesse |
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Before all else I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of gain. They were, on the contrary, a little or, rather, a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many sided, containing a multiplicity of things all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it in a magical way with new instruments..
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Hermann Hesse |
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Gemeinsam aber ist allen Menschen, die des guten Willens sind, dieses: dass unsere Werke uns am Ende beschamen, dass wir immer wieder von vorn beginnen mussen, dass das Opfer immer neu gebracht werden muss.
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writing
works
kreativität
schaffen
schreiben
werk
german
creative-writing
creativity
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Suddenly he thought he saw a trait of soul-less habit in her dear coarse face, something mechanical and unmysterious in her friendly smile, something unworthy of him. His gesture froze in mid-air; the smile froze on his face. Was he still in love with her, did he really still desire her? No, he had been there too often. All too often he had seen this selfsame smile and smiled back without a prompting from his heart. What had still been all ..
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knt qd t`wdt `l~ lqym bb`D lnzht lt'mly@ lqSyr@ `l~ qdmy 'yan kn lTqs, f'stmt` fyh bnw` mn lnshw@ lmmzwj@ blswdwy@ w Htqr l`lm w krh ldht.
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Hermann Hesse |
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nhm ytTl`wn l lmuthl lty lm t`d muthlan, w lknhm swf yTrdwn Ht~ lmwt mn yTrH muthlan jdydh
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Hermann Hesse |
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lqd nsyt 'n l`lm mzl fy ws`h 'n ykwn wdwdan w lTyfan. kbrt w 'n 't`wd l`ysh m` dkhly. w lqd strkhyt 'mm m`rfty b'nny qd fqdt kl tqwym ll`lm lkhrjy, 'n Dy` 'lwnh lbrqh jz l tjz' mn Dy` Tfwlty, w 'nh bm`n~ mn lm`ny `l~ lmr 'n btkhl~ `n hdhh lhlh lmGryh thmnan lHryth w lnDj rwHh. 'm lan, w lGbTh tGmrny, fqd r'yt 'n hdh klh kn mdfwnan 'w msttran w 'nh mzl mn lmmkn -Ht~ lw tHrrt w fqdt s`d@ Tfwltk- 'n tr~ l`lm ysh` w 'n tnqdh lr`shh lldhydhh lty..
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Hermann Hesse |
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And here now is a bit of doctrine that will make you laugh: Love, O Govinda, appears to me more important than all other matters. To see through the world, to explain it, to scorn it--this may be the business of great thinkers. But what interests me is being able to love the world, not to scorn it, not to hate it and hate myself, but to look at it and myself and all beings with love and admiration and reverence.
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Hermann Hesse |
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I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.
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self-discipline
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Hermann Hesse |
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Pois o que eu odiava mais profundamente e maldizia mais era aquela satisfacao, aquela saude, aquela comodidade, esse otimismo bem cuidado dos cidadaos, essa educacao adiposa e saudavel do mediocre, do normal, do acomodado.
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Hermann Hesse |
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7b6d3b4
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trs fqT zmny dr tw bwjwd my ayd khh b khwdt szgry ndshth bshy. mrdm my trsnd chwn bh hych rwy z khwdshn shnkht ndrnd
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Hermann Hesse |
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'SbHt hdhh lHy@ klh fy lnhy@ `dhb `Zym w kbws l ykd Hmlh yTq ,w 'lm 'lym, fqd tkhly `nh kl shy', dwn 'n y`rf yqyn m dh kn hw ldhy tkhly `n kl shy' w m dh kn hdh lmwt w lGtrb byn jnbt `lmh lm'lwf qd Hdth ntyj@ lthm rtkbh hw bTmwHh w tkbrh , w lshk 'n hdhh lalm lty tSHb llhm lSdq hy shd lalm mrr@. n mn ytlqy lhm l ytlqy `Ty@ w 'mr fqT, bl yHml 'yD Sr
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Hermann Hesse |
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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morality
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Hermann Hesse |
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Hasta la fecha, jamas he perdido la sensacion de las contradicciones que hay detras de todo y el conocimiento. Mi existencia ha sido miserable y complicada, y sin embargo, para otros y en ocasiones incluso para mi, parece haber sido maravillosa.
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Hermann Hesse |
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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 this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impluse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself (...)For wh..
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Hermann Hesse |
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And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark upon eternity, And youth will turn to them as to a feast. The time may come when a man who confessed His self-doubts will be ranked among the blessed Who never suffered anguish or knew fear, Whose times were times of glory and good cheer, Who lived like children, simple happy lives. For in us too is part of that Eternal Mind Wh..
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mind
holiness
eternity
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Hermann Hesse |
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How heavy the days are. There's not a fire that can warm me, Not a sun to laugh with me, Everything bare, Everything cold and merciless, And even the beloved, clear Stars look desolately down, Since I learned in my heart that Love can die.
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poetry
love
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llh wHdh y`lm kyf ySdf 'n yqwl nsn m shyy'an m mthl hdh. lm 'kn qd qSdt 'n ykwn l'mr bhdhh lkrhyh, lknny lm ykn ldy 'dny tSwr `n lkhrb ldhy s'Hdthh, tlfTt bshy' lm 'kn '`y mDmwnh lHZ@ ltlfZ bh. lqd stslmt ldf` D`yf w fyh shyy' mn ldhk w lknh Hqd. w Sr hdh ldf` qdry. lqd qtrft btfhh w sthtr f`lan wHshyan, `tbrh hw... Hukman
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Hermann Hesse |
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To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
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history
meaning
life
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Although I know very little of the Steppenwolf's life, I have all the same good reason to suppose that he was brought up by devoted but severe and very pious parents and teachers in accordance with that doctrine that makes the breaking of the will the corner-stone of education and upbringing. But in this case the attempt to destroy the personality and to break the will did not succeed. He was much too strong and hardy, too proud and spirite..
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lone-wolves
self-loathing
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lm 'kn 'ryd lW 'n '`ysh wfq ldWwf` lHqyqyW@ lWty tnb` mn dkhly, flm kn l'mr b`dhh lSW`wb@?
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Hermann Hesse |
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Man braucht vor niemand Angst zu haben. Wenn man jemanden furchtet, dann kommt es daher, dass man diesem Jemand Macht uber sich eingeraumt hat.
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Hermann Hesse |
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It is pure fiction that there is no bridge between one person and another, ... On the contrary, what people have in common with each other is much more and of greater importance than what each person has in his own nature and which makes him different from others.' 'That is possible,' I said, 'but what good does it do me to know all this?
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And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves.
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rainmaker
hesse
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Hermann Hesse |
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da57494
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You don't force him, beat him, and give him orders because you know that 'soft' is stronger than 'hard,' that water is stronger than the rocks, that love is stronger than compulsion.
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And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who 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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656dd80
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Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
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Hermann Hesse |
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The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
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irony
war
humanity
peace
dark-humor
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Hermann Hesse |
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Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them. 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...
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Hermann Hesse |
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Clever talk is absolutely worthless. All you do in the process is lose yourself. And to lose yourself is a sin. One has to be able to crawl completely inside oneself, like a tortoise.
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