If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The river is everywhere.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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