There is no reality except the one contained within us.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The river is everywhere.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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