Hermann Hesse Quotes
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
