The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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