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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than…
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix…
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
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I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me…
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I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her…
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Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their…
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The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed…
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Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of…
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
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