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Rather Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul…
- 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,…
- ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the…
- His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken…
- There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for…
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