بودا برخاست و رفت و نگاه او و نیمه تبسمش در خاطره سیذارتا برای همیشه نقش بست. وی فکر گرد که من دیگر هیچگاه مردی را بدینگونه تبسم و نگاه کند و این طور بنشیند نخواهم دید. من هم می خواهم که بدان شکل باشم. بدانگونه تبسم کنم و بدانگونه بنشینم، آن قدر آزاد، وارسته، صاف، ساده، کودک وار و مرموز باشم. شخص در صورتی می تواند بدین شکل در آید و یا بدینگونه راه برود که خود را مسخر کرده باشد، من نیز خود را تسخیر خواهم کرد.


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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed man...
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a res...
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When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that ...
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourse...
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...
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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g...
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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think i...
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We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...
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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv...
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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...
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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after somethin...
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For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less commo...
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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one ...
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal,...
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So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophr...
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, ...
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each...
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a ...
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas ...
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...
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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself...
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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness ...
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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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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its...
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the othe...
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single sa...
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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 ac...
HERMANN HESSE
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
HERMANN HESSE
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concep...
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le...
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. ...
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(We) consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the gene...
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The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no real...
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I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to come...
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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of...
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Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark wor...
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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the...
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...
HERMANN HESSE
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope...
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Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. ...
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We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane an...
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The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contain...
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She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...
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You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to ge...
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Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
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I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so ve...
HERMANN HESSE
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...
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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...
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Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to ...
HERMANN HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
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I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. Th...
HERMANN HESSE
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unr...
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Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within ...
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Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no on...
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One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, ...
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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
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Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you.
Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!
You were h...
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So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees hav...
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Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum
nicht jede wächst zur Frucht
sie schimmern hell wie...
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When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: B...
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When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud ...
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No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found...
HERMANN HESSE
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...
HERMANN HESSE
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am...
HERMANN HESSE
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...
HERMANN HESSE
When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily
happen that the only thing his...
HERMANN HESSE
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of our...
HERMANN HESSE
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after the...
HERMANN HESSE
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we...
HERMANN HESSE
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,...
HERMANN HESSE
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
HERMANN HESSE
Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSE
He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r...
HERMANN HESSE
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille...
HERMANN HESSE
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of o...
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Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c...
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ...
HERMANN HESSE
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...
HERMANN HESSE
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op...
HERMANN HESSE
Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo...
HERMANN HESSE
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It...
HERMANN HESSE
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
HERMANN HESSE
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo...
HERMANN HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMANN HESSE
There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, wi...
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(...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,...
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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ...
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i...
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The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSE
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,...
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To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institution...
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Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dog...
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For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T...
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If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ...
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There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the col...
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Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.
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He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness
HERMANN HESSE
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom
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Wisdom is not communicable.
HERMANN HESSE
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Es gehört meist mehr Mut dazu, einfach menschlich, statt heldenhaft heroisch zu sein.
HERMANN HESSE
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSE
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salv...
HERMANN HESSE
Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...
HERMANN HESSE
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
HERMANN HESSE
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret
HERMANN HESSE
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life...
HERMANN HESSE
But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ...
HERMANN HESSE
Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.
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And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy a...
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Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O...
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
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