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''To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943, trans. 1960).
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, sha...
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Father Jacobus, in The Glass Bead Game, ch. 4 (1943, trans. 1960).
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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood ...
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. "For Madmen Only," Steppenwolf (1927).
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''One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Frau Eva, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).
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''The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Letter, 1950. "Montagnola," Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography, ed. Volker Michels (1973).
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''In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Narrator (Sinclair), in Demian, prologue (1960).
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''In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Sinclair, in Demian, prologue (1960).
Sinclair is the narrator.
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''I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.''
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Sinclair, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).
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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood ...
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Steppenwolf, "For Madmen Only," (1927).
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts ...
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Steppenwolf, preface (1927).
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