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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
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.
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
