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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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.
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.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
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.
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.
