My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb 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.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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