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Perhaps he was handsome, perhaps I liked him, perhaps I also found him repulsive, I could not be sure of that either.
— Hermann Hesse
The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ...
— Hermann Hesse
Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you.
— Hermann Hesse
Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.
— Hermann Hesse
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
— Hermann Hesse
Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.
— Hermann Hesse
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
— Hermann Hesse
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
— Hermann Hesse
Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless,
— Hermann Hesse
But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words.
— Hermann Hesse
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
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Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
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I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases.
— Hermann Hesse
I don't believe in our politics, our way of thinking, believing, amusing ourselves; I don't share a single one of the ideals of our age.
— Hermann Hesse
For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
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We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
— Hermann Hesse
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
— Hermann Hesse
I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle
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Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard
— Hermann Hesse
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
— Hermann Hesse
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 Hesse
It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen.
— Hermann Hesse
He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different.
— Hermann Hesse
People like best what is hard for them to obtain.
— Hermann Hesse
passacaglia by the old master Buxtehude.
— Hermann Hesse
Enough! Or too much.
— Hermann Hesse
seriousness, young man, is an accident of time
— Hermann Hesse
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
— Hermann Hesse
The freedom to ... regard the future as the hope and product of my own strength and not as something fashioned by some strange power from above.
— Hermann Hesse
Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them,
— Hermann Hesse
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
— Hermann Hesse
Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.
— Hermann Hesse
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
— Hermann Hesse
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
— Hermann Hesse
While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings.
— Hermann Hesse
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
— Hermann Hesse
In the beginning was the myth.
— Hermann Hesse
It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.
— Hermann Hesse
To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
— Hermann Hesse
My path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead
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Let every reader do as his conscience bids him.
— Hermann Hesse
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
— Hermann Hesse
Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.
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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
— Hermann Hesse
The river is everywhere.
— Hermann Hesse
Look at a person carefully long enough, and you'll know more about him than he himself does." The
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Nothing is caused by demons. There are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast.
— Hermann Hesse
As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.
— Hermann Hesse
It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The world was beautiful when one just looked at it without
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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A person can neither think what he wants to nor can I make him think what I want to.
— Hermann Hesse
But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self.
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The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything.
— Hermann Hesse
Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared.
— Hermann Hesse
When we hate a man, we hate in him something which resides in us ourselves. What is not in us does not move us." Never
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You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible
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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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To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms.
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Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.
— Hermann Hesse
How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal ... !
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
— Hermann Hesse
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
— Hermann Hesse
I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
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All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take.
— Hermann Hesse
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
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Everyone can perform magic; everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, to wait, and to fast." Kamala
— Hermann Hesse
Friendship is identification and difference
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. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!
— Hermann Hesse
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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One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
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He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes.
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A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
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Here it is Saturday. You wouldn't know how good it feels after a hard week.""Oh, I can imagine," said Knulp with a smile. — Hermann Hesse
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
— Hermann Hesse
Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.
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Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
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This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them.
— Hermann Hesse
Love is stronger than violence.
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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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