A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEIn every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Solitude is independence.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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