I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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