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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.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
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.
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.
