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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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 between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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.
