He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEThe best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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