When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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The river is everywhere.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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