My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Solitude is independence.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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