Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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 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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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