I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEWhat 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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