Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The river is everywhere.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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