Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.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
And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann Hesse
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
Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.
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