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1877 - Hermann Hesse, born on the 2nd of July in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, Germany to a Christian Missionary family. He is a German novelist and poet.
1904 - 1914 - His first novel was Peter Camenzind; it was followed by Beneath the Wheel, Gertrud, and Rosshalde.
1914 - 1918 - An opponent of militarism, he settled permanently in Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I.
1919 - His later works deal with the individual's search for spiritual fulfillment, often through mysticism. Demian, influenced by his experience with psychoanalysis, made him famous.
1922 - Siddhartha, about the early life of Buddha, reflects his interest in Eastern spiritualism.
1927 - Steppenwolf, which examines the conflict between bourgeois acceptance and spiritual self-realization, was highly influential in its time and brought him cult status among the young of more than one generation.
1930 - 1943 - Narcissus and Goldmund and The Glass Bead Game, also published as Magister Ludi concern duality and the conflict between the contemplative and the active life.
1946 - He won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His mysticism and his interest in self-realization kept him popular long after his death.
1962 - Died on the 9th of August in Montagnola, Switzerland due to Cerebral Hemorrhage.
1904 - 1914 - His first novel was Peter Camenzind; it was followed by Beneath the Wheel, Gertrud, and Rosshalde.
1914 - 1918 - An opponent of militarism, he settled permanently in Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I.
1919 - His later works deal with the individual's search for spiritual fulfillment, often through mysticism. Demian, influenced by his experience with psychoanalysis, made him famous.
1922 - Siddhartha, about the early life of Buddha, reflects his interest in Eastern spiritualism.
1927 - Steppenwolf, which examines the conflict between bourgeois acceptance and spiritual self-realization, was highly influential in its time and brought him cult status among the young of more than one generation.
1930 - 1943 - Narcissus and Goldmund and The Glass Bead Game, also published as Magister Ludi concern duality and the conflict between the contemplative and the active life.
1946 - He won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His mysticism and his interest in self-realization kept him popular long after his death.
1962 - Died on the 9th of August in Montagnola, Switzerland due to Cerebral Hemorrhage.
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- "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
- "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again."
- "...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."
- "Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them."
- "You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."
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