I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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