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“ No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds. ”

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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

~ Hermann Hesse

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

~ Hermann Hesse

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

~ Hermann Hesse

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

~ Hermann Hesse