Quotes by Hermann Hesse

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  • If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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  • Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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  • If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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  • The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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  • We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
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  • His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands, between innumerable poles.
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  • Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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  • Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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  • When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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  • Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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