Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Solitude is independence.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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