Hermann Hesse Quotes
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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A five-pound boneless rolled-and-tied breast of veal, like any other piece of meat fit for braising, can come in many shapes and sizes. So recipe times aren't uniformly applicable. A long and thin tied roast will cook more quickly than its stouter, football-shaped cousin.
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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
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When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.
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A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
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Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.
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She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
