I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSELoneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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