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Hermann Hesse Quotes

German - Novelist | July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962

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.

Nature Live Men Mystery Unique Down

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Love Good God Same Always

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Words Thoughts Become Always Little

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Best Pretend Sane Insane Dealing

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Reality Meaning Hidden Things Behind

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Fire Comfort Liberty Pleasure Inner

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Free Finding Goal Seeking Means

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Smile God Childhood Present Remember

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Daily Silence School House Quiet Up

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Men Accomplish Incredible Threatened

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Travel Loved India Outside Over

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Relationship Me Literature Growing

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