Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
HERMANN HESSEHe had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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