Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny
"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny."
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"Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny."
"If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God... he does not come to us from books, he lives within us... This God is in you too. He i...
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be g...
"To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible."
Wisdom doesn't arrive on demand. It arrives in the space we stopped leaving for it. A century ago, Hesse wrote about a man who had everything and felt nothing—and the way out.
"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars."
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In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E....
"In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity."
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