People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
HERMANN HESSEWhat 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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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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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The river is everywhere.
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