I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSELife is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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