Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEEach man’s life represents a road toward himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Solitude is independence.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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