Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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 truth is lived, not taught.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new 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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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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