When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEYouth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Solitude is independence.
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