There is no reality except the one contained within us.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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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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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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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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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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