As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
HERMANN HESSEBecause the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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 magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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