Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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