Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSELoneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The river is everywhere.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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 deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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