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.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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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.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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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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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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