Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSEMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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