As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The river is everywhere.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Solitude is independence.
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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 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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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