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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
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.
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.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
