Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
HERMANN HESSEI began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Solitude is independence.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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