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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
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.
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.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
