Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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