As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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