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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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 have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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