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.
HERMANN HESSEWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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