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If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse
Fate, Destiny, What Matters
Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

Hermann Hesse
Fate, Wind, Sound
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

Hermann Hesse
Fighting, Fate, Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.103, Prestwick House Inc

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

Hermann Hesse
Fate, Two, Aphorism
Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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