People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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