Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Solitude is independence.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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