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Hermann Hesse

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

— Hermann Hessealone

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

— Hermann Hessecourage

"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 Hessedeath

"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

— Hermann Hessefaith

"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."

— Hermann Hessegood

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

— Hermann Hessehappiness

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

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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

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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."

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"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

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

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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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"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."

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"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

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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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"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

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"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."

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"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."

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"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale."

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"It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."

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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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"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."

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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 truth is lived, not taught."

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"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

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