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.
HERMANN HESSEAge is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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