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.
HERMANN HESSEI realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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