People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The river is everywhere.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Solitude is independence.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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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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