If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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