When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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