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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
