Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado a ofrecer amor y veneración, cuando hemos sido discípulos y amigos de todo corazón, el momento de reconocer que la corriente dominante en nosotros se aparta de la persona querida es amargo y terrible.


Hermann Hesse

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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air o...
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am...
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O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew no...
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When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easily
happen that the only thing his...
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of our...
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after the...
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we...
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Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist,...
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...
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Solitude is independence.
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He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he r...
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille...
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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 ...
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op...
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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...
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It...
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo...
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
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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.
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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
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom
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Wisdom is not communicable.
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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.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salv...
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Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...
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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life...
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But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ...
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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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What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
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