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41 " The town in which … I had spent my youth … had nothing to give me but memories. "
― Hermann Hesse , Gertrude
42 " Whenever he is hungry and opens his bag, there are only pearls inside. "
43 " It was a mystery … whether the solemn, silent man possessed more than human wisdom and stillness of spirit, or whether his mental powers had deserted him. "
44 " We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. "
45 " One can acquire money, fame and distinction, but one cannot create happiness or unhappiness, not for oneself or for others. One can only accept what comes, although one can, to be sure, accept it in entirely different ways. "
46 " I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle "
47 " During this long … journey, I realised the impossibility of running away and escaping. "
48 " I did not want to be like anyone else. I wanted to remain in my own skin, although it was often so constrictive... I had to find a bridge to reach people, I must learn to live with them without always feeling at a disadvantage. "
49 " Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people. "
50 " I already thought on that first evening of our meeting how glorious it would be to spend one's whole life regarded by those beautiful, candid eyes, and how it would then be impossible ever to think or do ill. "
51 " When I consider my life objectively, it does not seem particularly happy. Yet I cannot really call it unhappy, despite all my mistakes. After all, it is quite foolish to talk about happiness and unhappiness, for it seems to me that I would not exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones. "
52 " Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide. "
53 " La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! […] La juventud es la época más difícil de la existencia. "
54 " My lie has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. "
55 " None of us knew how terribly these two fine people suffered in secret. I do not think that they ever stopped loving each other, but deep down in their nature they did not belong to one another. "
56 " Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children and often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. "
57 " Gençler dünya durdukça yaşayacaklarına inanırlar, bu yüzden tüm düşünce ve istekleri kendilerine yöneliktir. Yaşlılar bir yerde son diye bir şeyin bulunduğunu anlamış, bir kimsenin yalnızca kendisi için sahip olduğu, yalnızca kendisi için yaptığı şeyin sonunda bir delikten içeri düşüp hiçbir değer taşımayacağının bilincine varmışlardır. "
58 " So strange is the human being that in the midst of my new life and fulfilled wishes, I was sometimes aware of a slight, fleeting, subconscious desire for solitude, for even boring and empty days. It seemed to me that the time I had spent at home and the dreary uneventful life from which I was so glad to escape, was something desirable. "
59 " Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing. "
60 " The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school. "