The river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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