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Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

Exists, Long, Reality

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Eye, Heart, Intellect, Know, Long, Wisdom

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!

Children, Experienced, Eye, Heart, Taste, Time

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Clearly, Deeply, Destiny, Distance, Eye, Painfully

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

Agreement, Understanding, Needs, Assent, Harm

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Entirely, Holy, Person, Persons, Sinful

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Book, Ideas, Lived, Taught, Truth

. . . and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

Heart, Intellect, Peace, Satisfied, Soul

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Abraxas, Devil, God

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Admire, Bring, Doe, Love, Loves, Possesses

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.

Abandoned, Journey, Switzerland, Travel, Years

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Innermost, Passion, Secret, Self, Silent

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

Believe, Meaning Of Life, Meaningfulness, Responsible

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Believe, Death, Determination, Outstanding, Struggle, Unconditional

For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.

Believe, Blind, Hour, Islands, Leaving, Say

Love is stronger than violence.

Love, Love Is, Stronger, Violence

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Cease, Demand, Mover, Strength, Strong

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

Able, Gifts, Goal, Quality, Wherever, Widest

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Associated, Beloved, Childhood, Everything, Glowing, Sound

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists

Collide, Culture, Suffering, Time, True, Two

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