"Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must……" — Hermann Hesse
"Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not"
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
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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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To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real…
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and…
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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Love is stronger than violence.
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