God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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