Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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