Quotes by Hermann Hesse

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the...

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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Solitude is independence.

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it....

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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness...

#Beauty, #Cruelty, #Custom

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his...

#Contentment

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

#Eternity

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may...

#Belief, #Fortune

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself....

#Hate

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

#Ideals