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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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.
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.
