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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.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
