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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

Hermann Hesse
Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

Hermann Hesse
Work, Destiny, Men

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

Hermann Hesse
Destiny, Men, Depth

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Hermann Hesse
Happiness, Destiny, Opposites

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse
Fate, Destiny, What Matters
Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Hermann Hesse
Distance, Eye, Destiny
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

Hermann Hesse
Music, Attitude, Destiny
"The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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