People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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