Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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