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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!
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Every experience has its element of magic.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse 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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