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Hermann Hesse
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Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse's insights on:

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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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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

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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.

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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

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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.

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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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