Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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 live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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The river is everywhere.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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