When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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