Hermann Hesse Quotes
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.
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gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
