Hermann Hesse Quotes
If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.
Quotes to Explore
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
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I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.
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We, and the universe we live in, produce and operate in a sea of natural and unnatural electrical and magnetic fields. The earth, for example, pulses at about 10 Hz, like a small engine. Our bodies, as you may remember from chapter 1, are really electromagnetic machines. We simply can't move a muscle or produce a thought without an electrical impulse - and wherever there is electricity, a magnetic field is also produced, which is why we link the two together into one word: electromagnetic.
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If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.
