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• When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

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  Home, Tree, Joy

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

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• Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

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  Children, Justice, Understanding

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “The Journey to the East: A Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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• Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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  People, Secret Love, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.57, 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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• Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

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  Fire, Flames, Perfection

  "The Glass Bead Game".

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• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

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  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

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  Mother, Path, Steps

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

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• In the beginning was the myth.

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  Myth

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

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  Stealing, Streets

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.49, Modern Library

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• A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

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  Strong, Mad, Normal

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

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  Sacrifice, Reality, Feelings

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• How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

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  Solitude, Independence, Longing

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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• a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

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  Holy, Persons

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

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  Purpose, Reason, Narcissus

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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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• You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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  Thinking, Overthinking, Ideas

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

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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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• Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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  Long, Moments, Eternity

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

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• Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

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  Men, Long, Important

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

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• His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

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  Two, Doe, Saint

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

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  Men, Way, Synchronicity

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse (p. 193), 1919.

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• In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

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  Brain, Thousand

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

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  Cups, Filled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

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  Long, Stories, Way

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

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• To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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  Teaching, Enlightenment, Hours

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