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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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.
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.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
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.
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.
