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.

Quote by Hermann Hesse

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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.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Love is stronger than violence.

Love is stronger than violence.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be...

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be...

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can...

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can...

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself....

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself....

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a...

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a...

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we...

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we...

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

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

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to...

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to...

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single...

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single...

My words are the kisses I wish Id said, but they say kisses dont last,...

My words are the kisses I wish Id said, but they say kisses dont last,...

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation...

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation...

The truth is lived, not taught.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it...

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it...