People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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