Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
HERMANN HESSENever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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 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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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