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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
