Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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