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Quote by Hermann Hesse
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was t

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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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. – Hermann Hesse

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – 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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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. – Arabic Proverb

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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. – Albert Einstein

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