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When I have neither pleasure n...

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

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When someone seeks,' said Sid...

When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

Each man's life represents a r...

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

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I wanted only to live in accor...

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Hermann Hesse 508 quotes

Once it happened, as I lay awa...

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

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One must find the source withi...

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

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You should never be afraid of ...

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

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Good that you ask -- you shoul...

Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.

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You've never lived what you ar...

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

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If a night-moth were to concen...

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wea

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You knew all along that your s...

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

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I have been and still am a see...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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Only within yourself exists th...

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

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As every flower fades and as a...

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

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Any attempt to replace a perso...

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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The voices of all creatures ar...

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

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I cannot tell my story without...

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

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Within us there is someone who...

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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All men of goodwill have this ...

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

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You say yes to the sunlight an...

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

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