Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEEverything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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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.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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