People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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