Happy is he who can love much. But loving and wanting aren't the same things.
Hermann Hesse
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by Hermann Hesse Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
This compassionate Idiot denies the whole of Life, all thinking and feeling, all that the world and reality mean to others. For him Reality is something entirely different than for them. Their Reality is for him a shadow: For that reason, because he sees and offers a new Reality, he becomes the enemy. [...] He has literally, once and more than once, stood on the magic borderland where...
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
"Never again!" Said imperiously his will. "Again tomorrow!" Begged the heart sighing.
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
Already since then the feelings were those that should've remained for ever: the uncertainty of his own worth, a constant oscillating between self-esteem and dejection, between an idealism which lied above al worldly matter and a natural appetite of the senses, and now as then, even a hundred times later did I see those traits in my nature sometimes as a despicable illness, and sometimes as a...
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive, active and, sometimes, aglow with joy. With this was bound up his need for loneliness and independence...
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