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Hermann Hesse
- There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life... Hermann Hesse {view}
- One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and cr... Hermann Hesse {view}
- At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.... Hermann Hesse {view}
- You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el... Hermann Hesse {view}