You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSETo die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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