No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSEWe 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Solitude is independence.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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