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Quote by Herman Hesse
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. – Herman Hesse

Other quotes by Herman Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. – Herman Hesse

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smile
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It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. – Herman Hesse

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Morning
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. – Herman Hesse

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Happiness
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A person isnt who they are during the last conversation you had with them – theyre who theyve been throughout your whole relationship. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. – Wesley Morris

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relationship

The establishment wonders why we cant get more of the black vote. Its because its not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people dont think alike. Most black people just vote alike. – J. C. Watts

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relationship

How do you build a relationship when youve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you dont see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? – Boris Becker

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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. – Lafcadio Hearn

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius

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I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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