#on

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#absorb #desire #fad #fault #his

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#bright #cheerfully #clothes #finest #full

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. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#almost #been #entirely #few #i

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#beyond #capable #consists #dividing #dividing line

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hate #him #ourselves #part #person

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#everyone #never #single #soul

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

— Hermann Hesse

#different #everything #little #loud #out

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