No better bonding than sharing some Hesse. P.S. thank you, tumblr, for this terrific woman.

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No better bonding than sharing some Hesse. P.S. thank you, tumblr, for this terrific woman.
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
Hermann Hesse, Demian (via havte)
You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way.
Hermann Hesse's Knulp
You had to learn to see man as a weak, selfish, and cowardly creature; you also had to realize how many of these evil traits and impulses you shared yourself; and nevertheless you allowed yourself to believe, and nourished your soul on the faith, that man is also spirit and love, that something dwells in him which is at variance with his instincts and longs to refine them.
Hermann Hess's The Glass Bead Game
It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. To love a woman, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed by her…it is the road to life.
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. To love a woman, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed by her…it is the road to life.
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
A small archive of correspondence from Hermann Hesse
[The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse]
I am not going anywhere. I am only on the way.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (via thusreluctant)
1972
“Most people…are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.” — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.
Hermann Hesse from The Glass Bead Game
Currently reading - The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
...it became clear to me that there would never be anything as desirable and important in my life as the return of such hours of clarity and creativeness.
Hermann Hesse's Gertrude, 1969