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 HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new 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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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Solitude is independence.
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