A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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