If I know what love is, it is because of you.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The river is everywhere.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Solitude is independence.
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