Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEI live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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