The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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