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.
HERMANN HESSEIf 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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