When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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We 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.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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