My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Solitude is independence.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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