Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSEArt is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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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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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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