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Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in Calw, Germany.
* He was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.
* His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game.
* He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
* He died on August 9, 1962 in Montagnola, Switzerland.
* His work has been translated into over 60 languages and has sold over 140 million copies.
* He is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
* His work explores themes of spirituality, self-discovery, and the search for meaning.
* He is a popular figure among young people and his work has been praised for its insights into the human condition.

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.

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Life

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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Knowledge

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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Knowledge

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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Writing

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

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Love

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

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Love

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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Love

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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Love

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

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Humor

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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Love

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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Books

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

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Truth

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

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Love

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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Life

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

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Love

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

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Life

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

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Inspirational

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

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Wisdom

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