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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'


Karen Hesse

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HERMANN HESSE Stages



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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 Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMAN 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...
HERMANN HESSE Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a c...
HERMANN HESSE There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter...
MONICA HESSE 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
HERMANN HESSE 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 It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read ...
HERMAN 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 For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I...
HERMAN 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 If you attempt to burn 20 copies and distribute them to the kids who come to your son's birthday par...
THOMAS HESSE You can do with the CD you bought what you do with it if you're within the realm of personal use,
THOMAS 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...
HERMANN HESSE (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,...
HERMANN HESSE Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSE Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
HERMANN HESSE When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ...
HERMANN HESSE Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i...
HERMANN HESSE The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables...
HERMAN HESSE The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
HERMANN HESSE If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSE Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSE