To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEThe best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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