A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEAnd all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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