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Been Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling…
- For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And…
- 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…
- It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would…
- 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…
- When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,…
- Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely…
- I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching…
- I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I…
- When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the…
- I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me…
- They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink…
- The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given…
- Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was…
- I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
- All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his…
- A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
- What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps…
- I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars…
- 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…
- . Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound…
- I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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