When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSENo permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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