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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
