Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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