No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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