Hermann Hesse

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Hermann Hesse?

  • → Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
  • → How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
  • → Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
  • → If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Hermann Hesse.

  • → Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
  • → I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
  • → The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
  • → Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Hermann Hesse.

  • → If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
  • → The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
  • → Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
  • → Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Hermann Hesse. Which one?

  • → I have read your book and much like it.
  • → The moment when you recognize your own lack of talent is your flash of genius.
  • → Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
  • → All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Hermann Hesse?

  • → Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
  • → Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes. But when you look back, everything is different.
  • → Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
  • → There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Hermann Hesse?

  • → The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
  • → But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
  • → People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
  • → Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Hermann Hesse.

  • → The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
  • → In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
  • → Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
  • → If I know what love is, it is because of you.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Hermann Hesse. Which one?

  • → To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
  • → We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest.
  • → I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
  • → A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
  
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