Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
HERMANN HESSEGod 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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Solitude is independence.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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