Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEOh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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