Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 11

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• our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

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  Purpose, Reason, Narcissus

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• Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

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  Sacrifice, Reality, Feelings

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• How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

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  Solitude, Independence, Longing

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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• Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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  Long, Moments, Eternity

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

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  Fire, Flames, Perfection

  "The Glass Bead Game".

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

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  Men, Way, Synchronicity

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

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• His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

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  Two, Doe, Saint

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• In the beginning was the myth.

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  Myth

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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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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  Thinking, Overthinking, Ideas

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

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  Stealing, Streets

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.49, Modern Library

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• Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

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  Beautiful, World, This World

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.22, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

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  Cups, Filled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

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  Men, Long, Important

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

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  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

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  Distance, Eye, Destiny

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

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  Brain, Thousand

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

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  Dream, Real, Shadow

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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

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  Blood, Diversity, Unity

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

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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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  People, Asking, Pleasure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan

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• All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

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  Suicide, Fall, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

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  Lust, Finding Yourself, Desert

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.270, Macmillan

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

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  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

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  Dream, Eye, Should

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.

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  Summer, Dream, Blessed

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• Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.

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  Wise, Mother, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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