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• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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

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• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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• I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

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

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

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

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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

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

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

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• Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

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• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

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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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• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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

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• Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

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• Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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Hermann Hesse (65)

Birth:	2nd July, 1877
Death:	9th August, 1962
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Hermann Karl Hesse was born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany. He was a German novelist, poet and short story writer. His best-known works(novels) include: Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game. He wrote other novels include: Peter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, Gertrud, Rosshalde, Knulp, and Narcissus and Goldmund. He wrote several poems, including One Hour After Midnight. He wrote several short stories include: Strange News from Another Star and Kinderseele. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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