Month: November 2025

“In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads “

Dante Alighieri
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“He listens well who takes notes.”

Dante Alighieri
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“Haste denies all acts their dignity.”

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse
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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse
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Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse
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Do not overlook the little joys!

Hermann Hesse
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Love must not entreat… Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse
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