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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#different #everything #little #loud #out

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

— Hermann Hesse

#fasting #intelligent #man #most #nothing

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

— Hermann Hesse

#never #possible #single #still #transgress

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#also #always #every #every man #himself

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#affirmative #answer #call #death #eternal

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

— Hermann Hesse

#how #object #talent

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine. ↗

— James Hetfield

#balls #beat #fine #got #her

Solitude is independence. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#solitude

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. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#constitutes #days #down #each #ever