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• The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

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  Beautiful, Simple, World

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.37, Om Books International

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• He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

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  Men, Objectivity, Shining

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

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  Wisdom, Yoga, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

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  Suffering, Littles, Sake

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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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• 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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• Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

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  Beautiful, World, This World

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.22, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

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  Lust, Finding Yourself, Desert

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.270, Macmillan

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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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• Is not every life, every work fine?

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  Fine

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.78, Om Books International

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• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

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  Real, Two, Suffering

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

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  Dream, Real, Shadow

  "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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• 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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• I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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  Blood, Diversity, Unity

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

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• She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

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  Distance, Eye, Destiny

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.

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  Children, Responsibility, Men

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• But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

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  People, Asking, Pleasure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan

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• To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

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  Real, Thinking, Maturity

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

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  Suicide, Fall, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

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  Collective Unconscious, Order, Confusion

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• Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.

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  Wise, Mother, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.

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  Summer, Dream, Blessed

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• The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

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  Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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• Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

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  Dream, Eye, Should

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

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