The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The river is everywhere.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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