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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
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.
Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
