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I'm not kidding. I'm telling you what I've found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. This was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers.
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4d23b7c
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He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching.
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fc1f077
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There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
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silence
life
klein-and-wagner
quarrel
children
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80c5da5
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Las flores se marchitan Cuando la niebla llega Asi tambien la gente Y bajan a sus tumbas. La gente es, como las flores, Regresan a su primavera; Y nunca mas vuelven a languidecer, Y todo les es perdonado.
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experiences, though forgotten, could never be erased. Their series was the story of my life, their starry light the undying value of my being. My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the salt of all human things; yet it had laid up riches, riches to be proud of. It had been for all its wretchedness a princely life. Let the little way to death be as i..
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My dear Sinclair, he said slowly, I didn't intend to tell you anything disagreeable. Besides - neither of us knows why you happen to be drinking wine at this moment. That which is within you and directs your life knows already. It's good to realize that within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent. Too much knowledge had held him back, too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rules, to much self-castigation, so much doing and striving for that goal! Full of arrogance, he had been, always the smartest, always working the most, always one step ahead of all others, always the knowing and spiritual one, always the priest or wise one. In..
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Ānanda
growth-process
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Hermann Hesse |
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e51e163
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sonsuzluk dedigimiz yalnizca bir an'dir, bir sakanin yer alacagi kadar uzun bir sure yani.
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Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.
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c53ec94
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I was conscious all the while in my heart how my fate raced on at breakneck speed, racing and chasing like a frightened horse, straight for the precipitous abyss, spurred on by dread and longing to the consummation of death.
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What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be. Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. Noth..
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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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love
klein-and-wagner
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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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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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madness
klein-and-wagner
dread
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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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Hermann Hesse |
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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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Hermann Hesse |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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masculine
demian
feminine
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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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reality
emil-sinclair
pistorius
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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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suicide
youth
hermann-hesse-gertrude
hermann-hesse
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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
unsterblichkeit
tod
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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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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
sinclair
reflection
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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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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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Hermann Hesse |
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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-quotes
love
love-at-first-sight
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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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