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A house without books is a poo...

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

What for me is bliss and life ...

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

In my brain were stored a thou...

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

When we are stricken and canno...

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

If a man has nothing to eat, f...

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

It was still quiet in the hous...

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

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It was morning; through the hi...

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

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Nevertheless, whether in occur...

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

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Among the letters my readers w...

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

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In Germany I have been acknowl...

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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So wie die Verruecktheit in ei...

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

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Love of God is not always the ...

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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Every healthy person must have...

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

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The world was so beautiful whe...

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

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Faith and doubt go hand in han...

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

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And what is called history at ...

And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.

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I, also, would like to look an...

I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.

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Each of us is merely one human...

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

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I want to learn from myself, w...

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

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Happiness is love, nothing els...

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

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