If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Self-hatred Hate

Speaker

Pistorius

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Another quote by Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Topic
Knowledge Wisdom
Speaker
Siddhartha

Author

Hermann Hesse
Source
Siddhartha
Language
German
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

Current Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

Another quote from the 1910s

Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Topic
Trains Travel

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)
Source
Howards End
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

Another quote from 1919

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

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Topic
Looking for love
Speaker
Stranger

Author

Sherwood Anderson
Source
Tandy
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

Current Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio, edited by Marc K. Dudley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.

Another quote originally in German

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Physicists

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Topic
Intellectual progress
Speaker
Mobius

Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt
Source
The Physicists
Medium
Play
Language
German
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. Die Physiker [The Physicists]. 1962, Zurich, Switzerland, act 2.

Current Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Physicists, translated by Joel Agee. Grove Press, 2010, act 2.