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Hermann Hesse was a German poet and novelist, born on July 2, 1877, and died on August 9, 1962. Known for his profound psychological descriptions and exploration of human nature, his works include classics such as 'Steppenwolf' and 'The Glass Bead Game'.

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“One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.”

Hands Would Be Games Waiting Laughing One Day Steppenwolf

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“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.”

Years Wells Feelings Young Fall Lost Interest Wall Rivers Illness Sat Thrown Outsiders Manhood Advancing Weariness Idlers

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

Persons Goal Healthy Life Goal Healthy Person

Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

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

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“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.)”

Art Dies Fantasy Higher Insanity Schizophrenia

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“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.”

Has Beens War Fall Destroyed Germany Nazi

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“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.”

Writing Certain Literature Growing Reader Letters Categories Symptoms

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“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.”

Years Age Hours Minutes Mere Old Age Encounters Lasting Nevertheless

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“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.”

Ifs Long Joy House Morning Saws Plans Sky Special Pure Clothes Window Blue Occasions Roof Finest

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“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.”

Has Beens Stills School House Sound Silence Heard Duty Quiet Reminders Reverie

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

Ifs Men Literature Can Do Health Intelligent Fasting

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

About the Author

Born: July 2, 1877
Died: August 9, 1962
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 761

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