The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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The river is everywhere.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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