God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEI have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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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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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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