The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Solitude is independence.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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