1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse



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    ...how mean and foolish are the living, with their never-ending terrors and curiosities, the puny effort of their lives, when faced with the quiet, kingly dead.

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    ...And yet, my dear, you've remained a Samana, and yet you do not love me, you love nobody. Isn't it so?""It might very well be so," Siddhartha said tiredly. "I am like you. You also do not love - how else could you practise love as a craft? Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret.

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    Je ne sais si, une fois, il sera accordé à vous, à moi, et à quelques autres ; de renouveler le monde – cela, nous le verrons. Mais nous devons le renouveler chaque jour en nous, sinon nous n’arriverons à rien.

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    Ben de onun gibi bakıp gülümseyebileyim, oturup yürüyebileyim isterdim, öylesine özgür, öylesine saygıdeğer, öylesine gizli, öylesine açıkyürekli, öylesine çocuksu ve gizemli. Doğrusu ancak Ben'in özüne girebilmiş biri böyle bakar ve yürür. Ben de kendi Ben'imin özüne girmeye çalışacağım.

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    How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal...!

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    la sagesse ne se communique pas. La sagesse qu'un sage cherche à communiquer a toujours un air de folie.(Siddhartha)

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