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Hermann Hesse
July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962
Nationality: German
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: German Novelist

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

   

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

   

The truth is lived, not taught.

   

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

   

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

   

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

   

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.

   

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

   

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

    Topics: Courage

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

   

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

   

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

   

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

   

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

   

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

   

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

   

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