Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I don't like controversy.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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I object very much when my work is said to not be political, because my feelings about the social system are in there somewhere. The idea is to have it all in there together-you can’t pull it out.
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
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Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
