Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Solitude is independence.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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