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Famous Hermann Hesse Quotes
“Harry, the thinker, is a hundred years old, but Harry, the dancer, is scarcely half a day old.”
“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
“Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.”
“The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.”
“I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.”
“All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.”
“When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.”
“Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.”
“Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.”
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.”
“Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.”
“When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.”
“Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.”
“The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.”