The river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSEYouth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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