Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.Hermann Hesse
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
Hermann Hesse
Everything becomes a little bit different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse
The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.
Hermann Hesse
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Hermann Hesse
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