Quote by Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. – Hermann Hesse

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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse

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Class
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse

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Knowledge
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. – Hermann Hesse

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I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. – John Slattery

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Part of courage is simple consistency. – Peggy Noonan

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. Whats cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I dont want to do that. – Ed Koch

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Courage

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If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck. – Jeff Foxworthy

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