When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The river is everywhere.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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