"Have you also learned that secret from the……" — Hermann Hesse
"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Love is stronger than violence.
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