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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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