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Book: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
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  1. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    Wasn't I merely human, just a poor simple guy who had been drawn into doing things against my feelings that not even God would demand of me? Wasn't
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    proud and unapproachable women are precisely the ones who fall in love the fastest and with the most passion, just as the warmest and most glorious spring usually follows the hardest winter. So
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  3. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    then all these people were his brothers and sisters. Each one of them carried the memory of a beloved mother and a better past, or a secret sign of a more beautiful and more noble destiny, and each person was dear to him and remarkable and gave him something to think about. Indeed, he felt that nobody was worse than he was himself.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no longer belonged to him but was strange and disconnected, like something once memorized that could be recalled only with difficulty in the form of barren fragments. He
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  5. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    His life and actions were determined less by impulses and aspirations than by prohibitions and the fear of punishment. At
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  6. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    Every person encounters the open door here and there in the course of life, and it occurs to everyone at one time or another that everything visible is symbolic and that spirit and eternal life are living behind the symbol. Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit.
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  7. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one. Every
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  8. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again write poems in small peaceful cities and play sonatas. But it can take the path that the individual must also take when his life has led him to make mistakes and suffer profound torment. It can recall its previous past, its heritage and childhood, its maturation, its rise and fall, and it can find the power while recalling everything that essentially and immortally belongs to it. It must "go into itself," as devout people say. And in itself, it will find its essence undestroyed, and this essence will not want to avoid its destiny but affirm it and begin anew out of its best and most profound qualities that have been rediscovered."
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  9. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    To a certain degree, the meaning of the war had finally been given its clearest expression by this random bombing. The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace. Everyone
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  10. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    My gift and uniqueness consist in this: I store images of the external world in my head, and out of them I am able to produce new images and arrangements only for myself. I can conceive the entire world in my mind. That is, I can create it anew.
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  11. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    Dass der Schüler sein Glück nur im Traum erlebt hat, ist gewiß keine Abschwächung, denn die meisten Menschen erleben ihre Träume viel heftiger als ihr Leben.
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  12. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    Geleceği düşündüğümde, benim için, gizlediğim bir tek amaç vardı ve onu gerçekten istiyordum. O da büyücü olmaktı.
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