A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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