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