Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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