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.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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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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