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Friendship is identification and difference

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Differences, Identification

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What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

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Pain, Self, Flight

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.17, Om Books International

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Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

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Agreement, Understanding, Needs

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.108, Om Books International

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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

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Individuality, Suffering, Flesh

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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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Feelings, Contentment, Harmony

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And 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.

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Children, Educational, Hero

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

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Imagination, Remember, Strict

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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

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Light, Sky, Voice

Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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

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Life, Giving, Way

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

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Men, Shining, Lovely

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."

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Book, Mean, Writing

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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

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Men, Facts, Steps

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

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Essence, Soul, Eternity

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

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Wisdom, Eye, Heart

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.74, Om Books International

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

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Believe, Men, Essence

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

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Running, Thinking, People

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

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Dream, Duration, Mysterious

Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

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Book, Way, Gone

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

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Suffering, Sorrow, Ends

Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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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.

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Wall, Fall, Rivers

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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

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Passion, Self, Secret

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.15, Om Books International

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The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

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Voice, Self, Judging

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them 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 years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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Taken, Men, Years

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

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Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

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Siddhartha, Alive, World

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All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

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Stars, Eye, Moon

"Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 45-46, 1922.

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Born: July 2, 1877
Died: August 9, 1962
Occupation: Poet
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