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Moment Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- 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 -…
- The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of…
- Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing…
- Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment…
- The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace…
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a…
- You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
- Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready…
- He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it…
- But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed,…
- She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion,…
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