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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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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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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Death
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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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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. – Lydia M. Child

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What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. – Eddie Marsan

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I emphasize… that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business. – Prescott Bush

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Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato

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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. – Nicholas M. Butler

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