My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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 have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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