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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
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.
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...
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
