Hermann Hesse

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"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Happiness
"To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Happiness
"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Death
"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Home
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Wisdom
"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Courage
"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Nature
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Strength
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): History
"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
― Hermann Hesse
Topic(s): Good

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