You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSEBecause the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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The river is everywhere.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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 best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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