Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSELearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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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 willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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