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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
