Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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