Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The river is everywhere.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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