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

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

Hermann Hesse
Love, Life, Strength

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Relationship, Communication

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Doe, Admire

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Life, Anniversary
"Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Dream, Sweet

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Encouragement, Hurt

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Stars, Winning
Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Art, Giving

Love is stronger than violence.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Love Is, Stronger

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Feelings, Admiration
Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

Happiness is love, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Happiness, Marriage

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

Hermann Hesse
Love, Men, Class
Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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