He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSELife is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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 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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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