To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
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More quotes by Hermann Hesse
- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- 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.
- To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.