"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that……" — Hermann Hesse
"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies."
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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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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