I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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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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