I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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