A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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