To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Because 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.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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