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 HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Solitude is independence.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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