The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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