God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEI live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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I 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.
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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.
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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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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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The river is everywhere.
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