Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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The river is everywhere.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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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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