You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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