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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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(Hermann Hesse - "Demian")
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"Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure." (Hermann Hesse — "Peter Camenzind")
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"That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!" (Hermann Hesse — "Peter Camenzind")
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"That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony." (Hermann Hesse — "Gertrude")
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"Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children and often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them." (Hermann Hesse — "Gertrude")
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"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" (Hermann Hesse — "Demian")
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"You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one." (Hermann Hesse — "Demian")
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"I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself." (Hermann Hesse — "Demian")
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"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world." (Hermann Hesse - "Demian")
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"I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference." (Hermann Hesse - "Demian")
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"They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?" (Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha")
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"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." (Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha")
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another." (Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha")
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"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads." (Hermann Hesse - "Steppenwolf")
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