Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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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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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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