Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Hermann Hesse
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can -...
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can -...
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can -...
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can -...
About This Quote

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. This quote is similar to the previous one, but there is a slight difference in the meaning. In the previous quote, the writer was saying that ordinary people (the ones without special gifts and abilities) can and should love.

However, in this quote, he has made a distinction between "people like us" and "ordinary people." He doesn't mean to say that we are different from everyone else. He means we are different from each other; we have special abilities and gifts that ordinary people do not. We are special in our own way, and this makes it hard for us to love one another.

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