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- Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in Calw, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Hours (2002), Siddhartha (1972) and Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003). He was married to Ninon Ausländer, Ruth Wenger and Maria Bernoulli. He died on August 9, 1962 in Montagnola, Switzerland.
- SpousesNinon Ausländer(November 1931 - August 9, 1962) (his death)Ruth Wenger(January 11, 1924 - 1927) (divorced)Maria Bernoulli(August 2, 1904 - June 1923) (divorced, 3 children)
- Children
- Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Slovenian rock band Siddharta got its name after his book.
- American rock band Steppenwolf got their name from "Steppenwolf" written by Hesse.
- Father of Bruno Hesse (b. 1905), Heiner Hesse (b. 1909) and Martin Hesse (b. 1911). Grandfather of Christina and Simon (Bruno's children), Silver, David and Eva (Heiner's children) and Sibylle Hesse (Martin's daughter).
- Son of Johannes Hesse and Marie Gundert and brother of Adele Gundert-Hesse and Johannes Hesse Jr.
- Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
- In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.
- That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
- At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music. From that moment on I had a world of my own, a sanctuary and a heaven that no one could take away from me. Oh, music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it;it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to to depressed spirits.
- I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
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