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Herman Hesse
 
Date of birth: 02 July 1877
Date of death: 09 August 1962
Country Of Origin: Germany
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" Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. "

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" And so I lay in bed for a delightful eternity, enjoying the onset of morning and the peaceful after-effects of sleep, and if I have savored the identical or similar happiness at other times in my life or not, none of those moments could have been any deeper or more genuine The world was in order. "

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" And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another. "

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" But it was obviously neither day nor night. True, the pleasant light and the cheery blueness of the sky were there, but one could hear neither the maidservants' footsteps on the sandstone tiles of the court, nor a slamming door, nor the boy from the bakery on the steps. "

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" But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. "

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" For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. "

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" I hate the grands simplificateurs, and I love the sense of quality, of inimitable craftsmanship and uniqueness. "

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" I survived the years of the Hitler regime and the Second World War through the eleven years of work that I spent on the Glasperlenspiel a novel in two volumes. Since the completion of that long book, an eye disease and increasing sicknesses of old age have prevented me from engaging in larger projects. "

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" I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. "

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" If I was painstakingly selective, very few experiences remained, and even they were not pictures one could paint, or stories one could tell; they adroitly defied description. "

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" In 1923, I resigned German and acquired Swiss citizenship. After the dissolution of my first marriage I lived alone for many years, then I married again. Faithful friends have put a house in Montagnola at my disposal. "

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" In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there. "

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" It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature. "

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" It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. "

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" It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. "

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