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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

—Hermann Hesse

“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”

—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves. ”

—Hermann Hesse,

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. ”

—Hermann Hesse

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ”

—Hermann Hesse

“Siempre ha sido así y siempre será igual, que el tiempo y el mundo, el dinero y el poder, pertenecen a los mediocres y superficiales, y a los otros, a los verdaderos hombres, no les pertenece nada. Nada más que la muerte. ”

—Hermann Hesse. En: El lobo estepario. 

“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you!”

—Hermann Hesse
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