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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
