Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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 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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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