Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss poet, novelist, painter (Nobel Prize, 1946).

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'Yes, Siddhartha,' he said. 'Is this what you mean: that the river is in all places at once, at its source and where it flows into the sea,

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at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the ocean, in the mountains, everywhere at once,

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so for the river there is only the present moment and not the shadow of the future?'

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'It is,' Siddhartha said. 'And once I learned this I considered my life, and it too was a river,

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and the boy Siddhartha was separated from the man Siddhartha and the graybeard Siddhartha only by shadows, not by real things.

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Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has being and presence.

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O correr das águas, a passagem das nuvens, o brincar das crianças, o sangue nas veias. Esta é a música de Deus.

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sono stato e sono tuttora un cercatore, ma ho smesso di fare domande a stelle e libri

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la solitude est l'indépendance, je l'avais souhaitée et acquise au cours de longues années

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elle était froide,oh! oui, mais elle était calme,merveilleusement calme et immense comme l'espace silencieux et glacé où tournent les astres

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Le nace a uno cierta melodía, la canta uno silenciosamente, en el interior solamente;

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toda la naturaleza individual se posesiona de la tonada y se deja uno llevar por ella por su fuerza y emotividad,

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y lo notable es que mientras se adueña de uno se olvida lo fortuito, lo banal y lo burdo,

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nos armoniza con el universo y nos da fuerzas y alas contra nuestra torpeza y depresiones

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.

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People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

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I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and

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tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of