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• Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

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  Time, Ocean, Past

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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• As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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  Being Single, Soul, Literature

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

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• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

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  War, Eye, Disrespect

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• Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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  Running, Stars, Fall

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

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  Book, Ideas, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

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  Life, Fun, Weapons

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• You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

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  Trying, Impossible, Achieve

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• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

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  Humor, Higher, Oneself

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• A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

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  Home, Tree, Looks

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

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  Love Is, Men, Capable

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• Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

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  Love, Doe, Admire

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• A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

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  Good Night, Morning, Home

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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

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  Truth, Faces, Millions

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• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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  Art, Grace, World

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

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  Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Unreal

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

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• Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

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  Flower, Heart, Trying

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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  Insanity, Insane, Method

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• You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

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  Dream, Way, Easy

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

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• You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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  People, Harmony, Ifs

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

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• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

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  Book, Angel, Ice

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.182, Bantam

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• I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

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  Disappointment, Suffering, Vex

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

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  Peace, Order, Despair

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• Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

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  Stronger, Reason

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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