Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
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I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.
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I love being married. I've been married three times.
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I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.
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I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
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I walked by myself through the city and urged angry young people to go home. I asked them to help the people who had been burned out.
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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
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By taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there in those wild bowers A lovely form is laid; Green grass and dew-steeped flowers Wave gently round her head.
