Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSEA house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Solitude is independence.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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