Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSEI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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