There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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There 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.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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