Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 13

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• I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

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  Jobs, Voice, Rivers

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• And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

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  Love Is, Laughing, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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• Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

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  Devil

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

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  Life Is, Difficult, Life Is Difficult

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Gertrude: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan

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• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

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  Art, Grace, Understanding

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• It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

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  Luxury, Students, Abundance

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.280, Macmillan

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• I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

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  Finding Love, Stolen, Streets

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.44, Om Books International

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• The river is everywhere.

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  Rivers

  Hermann Hesse (2000). “Siddhartha: Siddhartha”, p.112, Shambhala Publications

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• The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

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  Thinking, Conceited, Agony

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• Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

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  Important, Gestures, Morality

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.43, Macmillan

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• That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?

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  Brother, Children, Thinking

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

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• Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

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  Buddhist, Yoga, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.

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  Dream, Heart, Self

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

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• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

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  Song, Rain, Sadness

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• You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

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  Fall, Tired, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.18, Prestwick House Inc

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• I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

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  Siddhartha, Secret, Want

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.20, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

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  Travel, Fray, Trousers

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

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• The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

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  Beautiful, Philosophy, Gita

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• I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

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  Order, Perfection, Soul

  "Siddhartha: An Indian Tale".

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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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• Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

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  Life, Strength, Demand

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• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

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  Love, Men, Class

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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  War, Fall, Germany

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• All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.

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  Eye, Night, Together

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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