When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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