Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 9

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• That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

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  Life, Years, Long

  "Peter Camenzind". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.

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

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  Health, Intelligent, Men

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

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• One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

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  Children, Fundamentals, Sage

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

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• Did all this make sense?

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  Make Sense

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan

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• All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

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  Mean, Soul, Expansion

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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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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  Happiness, Hope Death, Fulfilled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Smile

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• Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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  Self, Excellence, Doe

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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

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  Men, Path

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

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• The tree does not die, it waits.

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  Tree, Waiting, Doe

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 149), 1919.

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• It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

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  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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  Men, Way Forward, Matter

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• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

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  Men, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

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  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

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  Growth, Mindfulness, Trials

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.493, Macmillan

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• Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

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  Each Day, World, Remains

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

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• Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

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  Children, Player, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

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  Travel, Stupid, Journey

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

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• The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.

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  Children, Perfect, Grace

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

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• When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

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  Glowing, Discovery, Childhood

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• Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

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  Witty, Men, Thinking

  "Steppenwolf". Book by Hermann Hesse, pp. 15-16, 1927.

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• In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

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  Truth, Opposites, One Sided

  "Siddhartha: An Indian Tale".

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• It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

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  Children, Heart, Eye

  "Siddhartha".

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• He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

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  Siddhartha, Given, Greater

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

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

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  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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