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“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his


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“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”

“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep rive...


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“Potentially, every tree is immortal.”

Hermann Hesse believed that if we could learn to listen to the trees, we would achieve profo...


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“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.”

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of bo...


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“Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back.”

“Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his


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