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.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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