Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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