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Hermann Hesse

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Quotes by Hermann Hesse

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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
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"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Contraries (are) poles of a unity.
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Contraries (are) poles of a unity.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.
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As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us.
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In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us.
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