Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted an… - Hermann Hesse

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Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.

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Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) all of which explore an individual's search for spirituality.

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Native Name: Hermann Karl Hesse

Alternative Names: Hh. Hesse • Herman Hesse

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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

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Henry Miller Leo Tolstoy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boris Pasternak E. M. Forster

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It is the law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long...

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to them again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

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