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Poet, writer, aphorist and philosopher, Nobel prize for literature, born monday july 2, 1877 in Calw, Württemberg (Germany), died thursday august 9, 1962 in Montagnola (Switzerland)
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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Young people believe to live forever, and therefore they favour every thought and every desire. The old ones are already shrewed that somewhere there is an end, and that all that is possessed and it makes for one's self, at the end it will fall in a grave and it will not have had some value. For this they need a various eternity and to believe that they do not only work for the worms. That's why there are wife and sons, transactions, job, homeland: for giving to a scope to the hard work and the daily sacrifices.
Hermann Hesse
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    Posted by: mor-joy
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    All the books of the world don't give you happiness, but in secret they refer to you.
    There is everything you needin there, sun stars moon.
    Because the light that you looked for lives in your chest.
    The wisdom that you have looked for a long time in a library sines in every sheet, because now it's yours.
    Hermann Hesse
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      Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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      Serenity is not messing around or vanity, but high knowledge and love, it is the affermation of all realities, and surveillance on the side of every depth and prescipice. It is the secret of beauty and the authentic substance of every art.
      Hermann Hesse
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        Posted by: Saverio Carulli
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        Each of us must find on its behalf what is legal and what is forbidden: forbidden for him. You can not make never nothing forbidden and however be a great scoundrel. And vice versa. To be absolutely rigorous, it's comfortable. Whoever is too much comfortable to think for himself and to be judge of himself settles down to the prohibition. Easy for him. Others instead feel some Commandments inside themself and consider forbidden things that any gentleman does every day, while they feel legit other things that usually are prohibited. Everyone must be guarantor of itself.
        Hermann Hesse
        from the book "" by Hermann Hesse
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          Posted by: Abfede Sempre
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          Once, he said to her: "You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it. (From "Siddharta")
          Hermann Hesse
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