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.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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