A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEYou can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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