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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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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.
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.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
