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