Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Love is the one wild card.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
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We told each other every funny story we could think of. One of them stays in my mind. A German citizen wants to commit suicide. He tries to hang himself, but the rope is of such a poor quality that it breaks. He tries to drown himself, but the percentage of wood in the fabric of his pants is so high that he floats on the surface like a raft. Finally he starves to death from eating official government rations.
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Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
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Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
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Love is stronger than violence.
