Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Solitude is independence.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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