Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Solitude is independence.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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