He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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