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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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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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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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