You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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