I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
HERMANN HESSEAnd 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how 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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