Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Solitude is independence.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The river is everywhere.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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