He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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