You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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