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More Quotes by Hermann Hesse
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
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.
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.
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.
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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.
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.
