My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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