February 2012
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Uptown Problems Magazine: kierkegaard's repetition →
“So soon as his creative activity was awakened he had enough to occupy him for his whole life, especially if he rightly understood himself and confined himself to the snug domestic delight of intellectual occupations and the enjoyment of imagination as a pastime, which is the most perfect surrogate for love, is far from entailing love’s troubles and fatalities, and yet bears an express likeness...
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“If one takes the sayings of the New Testament not as commandments but as...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“If I were a composer, I could without difficulty write a melody for two voices,...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“And so today I stood again for awhile in front of these pictures and since I...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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“The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the...”
– Excerpt from The American Scholar, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Today I also spend some minutes in front of the store windows on Badestrasse. In...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Denver Lindley
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Uptown Problems Magazine: more emerson →
“A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires,— the desire of...
“He remembered that sadness well, but he could no longer remember what had made...”
– Hermann Hesse, from Narcissus and Goldmund
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January 2012
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“…this suffering from insomnia and this morning misery seems to me not just...”
– Excerpt from A Guest at the Spa, from Autobiographical Writings by Hermann Hesse
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“He was so calm that she too controlled herself. Oh, there were many things, very...”
– Except from Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
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“In my body and in my soul I realized that I greatly need sin, I needed lust,...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via hermannhesse)
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Uptown Problems Magazine: kierkegaard on... →
“Hope is a charming young maiden but slips through the fingers, recollection is a beautiful old woman but of no use at the instant, repetition is a beloved wife of whom one never tires. For it is only of the new one grows tired. Of the old one never tires. When one possesses that, one is happy, and only he is thoroughly happy who does not delude himself with the vain notion that repetition ought...
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“She found her husband in his study. He was sitting at his desk pondering...”
– Excerpt from The Party by Anton Chekhov
Translation by Ronald Wilks
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December 2011
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“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via shantosophy)
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“Veraguth strode slowly through his studio, then through his living room and...”
– Excerpt from Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
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“What remained to him was his art, of which he had never felt as sure as he did...”
– Excerpt from Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
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“On the aim of Science.— What? The aim of science should be to give men as much...”
– Excerpt from Book One of The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann