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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

  Hermann Hesse

  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

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• A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's a place we belong. Love is what makes a home, not the contents inside the house or the number on the door. It's the people waiting for us across the threshold, the people who will take us in their arms after a ad day and kiss us good night and good morning everyday for the rest of our lives.

  Hermann Hesse

  Good Night, Morning, Home

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• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Strength, Strong, Demand

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• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, World

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

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  Love Is, Men, Capable

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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  Insanity, Insane, Method

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• When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

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  Suffering, Investing, Enough

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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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  Flower, Heart, Trying

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• Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Ocean, Past

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

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  Dream, Way, Easy

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

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  Trying, Impossible, Achieve

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• Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

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  Disappointment, Suffering, Vex

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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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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  Love, Doe, Admire

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• As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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  Being Single, Soul, Literature

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

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  Book, Angel, Ice

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.182, Bantam

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• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Song

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Philosophy, Reality, Unreal

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

  Hermann Hesse

  Madness, Steppenwolf, Higher

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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  People, Harmony, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Fun, Weapons

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