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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
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.
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...
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.
