"When a writer receives praise or blame, when……" — Hermann Hesse
"When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding."
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Hermann Hesse
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397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else.
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Love is stronger than violence.
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