Hermann Hesse

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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a 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 else.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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