A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Because 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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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You 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.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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