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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.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.
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...
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
