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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.
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.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
