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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
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.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
