Your soul is the whole world.
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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The river is everywhere.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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