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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
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.
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.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
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...
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.
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.
