Author: Hermann Hesse

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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

- Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

- Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

- Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived, not taught.

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

- Hermann Hesse

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

- Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

- Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

- Hermann Hesse

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

- Hermann Hesse

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