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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...
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.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
