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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.
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.
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.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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...
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
