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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.
The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.
Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.
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.
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.
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...
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.
