To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEAll life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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