The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Age 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.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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