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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

~Hermann Hesse

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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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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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Novelist

Born: July 2nd, 1877

Died: August 9th, 1962

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