What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
HERMANN HESSEWithin you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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