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| eaf0c15 | and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 189c1d2 | it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading wildly with blind obsession for new war. | war reason pacifism peace | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7be62b7 | l~ lmr 'n ykwn qdran `l~ ltslsl l~ dkhl nfsh tmman mthl lslHf@. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1d6dfde | What is the world doing? Have new gods been discovered, new laws, new freedoms? Who cares! But up here a primrose is blossoming and bearing silver fuzz on its leaves, and the light sweet wind is singing below me in the poplars, and between my eyes and heaven a dark golden bee is hovering and humming--I care about that. It is humming the song of happiness, humming the song of eternity. Its song is my history of the world. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 778adca | You will learn it,' said Vasudeva, 'but not from me. The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.' ...Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid thing, this repetition, this course of events in a fateful circle?... The river laughed. Yes, that was how it was... | Hermann Hesse | ||
| da16c12 | When a person seeks," Siddhartha said, "it can easily happen that his eye sees only the thing he is seeking; he is incapable of finding anything, of allowing anything to enter into him, because he is always thinking only of what he is looking for, because he has a goal, because he is possessed by his goal. Seeking means having a goal. Finding means being free, being open, having no goal. You, Venerable One, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for,.. | truth seeking | Hermann Hesse | |
| c5dbb21 | Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cd45aef | Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. You must have had a remarkable sort of religious education if you did not know that. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 40b45bb | To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastrophe of nature. To them, too, however, the other thought has come that man is perhaps not merely a half-rational animal but a child of the gods and destined to immortality. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f3ad59c | lys l`lm nqSan , wl ytTwr tTwr bTyy'an fy Tryq Twyl l~ lkml ; kl , nh kml fy kl lHZ@ wkl khTyy'@ tnTwy fy dkhlh `l~ lGfrn , wl'Tfl lSGr jmy`an shywkh kbr blmkn . wlrD` jmy`an yHmlwn lmwt kmn fyhm - wl'mwt kf@ mw`wdwn blHy@ l'bdy@ . wlys mn lmmkn lshkhS wHd 'n yr~ l~ 'y md~ blG shkhS akhr mn 'shwT lTryq , n bwdh mwjwd fy llS mthlm hw mwjwd fy lmqmr , wllS mwjwd fy lbrhmy . wmn lmmkn 'thn lt'ml l`myq nfy lzmn , wrwy@ lmDy wlHDr wlmstqbl jmy`a.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9ba8adf | I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the wan sky, with stars suspended above. Then a fearfully sweet, overpowering emotion would take hold of me--as though all the nighttime beauty looked at me accusingly, stars and mountain and lake longing for someone who understood the beauty and agony of their mute existence, who could express it for them, as though I were the on.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d2929a9 | Some day you will think of what I am going to say to you now: our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ccac067 | All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously occupied in their souls with the only thing that is important, which is themselves and their enigmatic relationship with the world around them. Seekers and wise people return to these preoccupations as they mature. Most people, however, forget and leave forever this inner world of the truly significant very early in their lives. Like lost souls they wander about for t.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| aca595e | lwld@ S`b@ dy'man. 'nt t`rf 'n lfrkh l ykhrj mn lbyD@ bshwl@? tdhkr ws'l nfsk: 'kn lTryq S`ban? 'lm ykn jmylan 'yDan? whl tstTy` 'n tfkr fy Tryq 'jml w'shl? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| cbb1398 | Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter | youth | Hermann Hesse | |
| f65d388 | Ah, es dificil encontrar esa huella de Dios en medio de esta vida que llevamos, en medio de este siglo tan contentadizo, tan burgues, tan falto de espiritualidad, a la vista de estas arquitecturas, de esta politica, de estos hombres! ?Como no habia yo de ser un lobo estepario y un pobre anacoreta en medio de un mundo, ninguno de cuyos fines comparto, ninguno de cuyos placeres me llama la atencion? No puedo aguantar mucho tiempo ni en un tea.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4a57b9a | It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside his wooden sword, slingshot, bow-and-arrow and other childish games, when he begins to forge ahead, when the seriousness of the work begins to transform the rough-neck into a delicate, serious and an almost ascetic creature, when his face take.. | hermann-hesse tame society church human-nature school | Hermann Hesse | |
| dd5009a | He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts. | pain death life introspection | Hermann Hesse | |
| b1b737b | For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2334ced | 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 thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 202c804 | The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life. It is not possible for any person to see how far another one has already progressed on his path; in the robber and dice-gambler, the Bud.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b4bb976 | Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never talk about music. What reply, then, was I to make to your very able and just remarks? You were perfectly right in all you said. But, you see, I am a musician, not a professor, and I don't believe that, as regards music, there is the least point in being right. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and educati.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e91baf3 | It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences--about cause and effect. Maybe that's why I feel that I live in exile. I used to live in a country that had a future. | politics truth | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 633d466 | We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. | society | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 68df3d6 | Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5796a67 | You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 080ad77 | A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. | machines sin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 15f87e0 | There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me. | dogs anthropomorphization anthropomorphizing dogs-humour dogs-speak | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d11fe07 | He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a.. | inequity iniquity profit initiative | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 82ef9a7 | Estraven stood there in harness beside me looking at that magnificent and unspeakable desolation. 'I'm glad I have lived to see this,' he said. I have felt as he did. It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ad17b43 | I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. I'm not sure of the nature of my existence, and wonder to find myself writing. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5dc991f | On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place. | death earthsea land sea water evil | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4b95ae8 | The Owl thinks slowly, but the Owl thinks long. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| db2754b | And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They were only sold there. Where were the workshops, the factories, where were the farmers, the craftsmen, the miners, the weavers, the chemists, the carvers, the dyers, the designers, the machinists, where were the hands, the people who made? Out of sight, somewhere else. Behind walls. All the people in all the shops were ei.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 85091a0 | Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bd316b9 | I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 103138b | He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed .. | good-and-evil resistance | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 29519b0 | Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. | lies truth | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 0acafa3 | What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? | love countries boundaries patriotism | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7845ef7 | The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c0f72a2 | A decision worthy of the name is based on observation, factual information, intellectual and ethical judgment. Opinion--that darling of the press, the politician, and the poll--may be based on no information at all. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bb9fdbd | He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8104333 | Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. | stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 173b58d | Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate. | Ursula K. Le Guin |