Hermann Hesse Short Quotes

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Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.

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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

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A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self

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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

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Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

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Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself

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The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

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All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

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Your faith has found no more air to breathe. And suffocation is a hard death.

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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

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I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

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Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads.

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That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

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Lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

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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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Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason's child; it springs from deeper strata.

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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

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But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

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