My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEWithin you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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