Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Solitude is independence.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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