Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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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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The river is everywhere.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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