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• A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Wind, Tree

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

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• He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.31, Youcanprint

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• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• Did all this make sense?

  Hermann Hesse

  Make Sense

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

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• Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

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  Goal, Healthy, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2000). “Demian”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sympathy, Death, Sweet

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Doubt, Should, Asks

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

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• Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

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  Men, Saint, Samsara

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

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• You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

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  Coward, Steppenwolf, Willing

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.216, Macmillan

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• When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, Suffering, Culture

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• I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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  Inspirational, Siddhartha

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

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• The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

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  Fighting, Names, Eggs

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 166, 1919.

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• Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

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  Hate, Deserving It, People

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

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  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

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  Light, Two, Perfection

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• It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

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  Passion, Heart, Waiting

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• I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

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  Self, Difficult, Accord

  "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1919.

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• Words can not express the joy of new life.

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  Baby, Joy, New Life

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Home, House

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• So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

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  Dance, Taken, Dancing

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

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• The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

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  Voice, Rivers, Water

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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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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Destiny, Men, Depth

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