The best quotes by Hermann Hesse

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Nothing is harder to man that to follow the route that takes him to himself.

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Young people believe to live forever, and therefore they favour every thought and every desire. The old ones are already shrewed that somewhere there is an end, and that all that is possessed and it makes for one's self, at the end it will fall in a grave and it will not have had some value. For this they need a various eternity and to believe that they do not only work for the worms. That's why there are wife and sons, transactions, job, homeland: for giving to a scope to the hard work and the daily sacrifices.

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All the books of the world don't give you happiness, but in secret they refer to you.
There is everything you needin there, sun stars moon.
Because the light that you looked for lives in your chest.
The wisdom that you have looked for a long time in a library sines in every sheet, because now it's yours.

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Serenity is not messing around or vanity, but high knowledge and love, it is the affermation of all realities, and surveillance on the side of every depth and prescipice. It is the secret of beauty and the authentic substance of every art.

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Tears are the melting ice of the soul.

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Each of us must find on its behalf what is legal and what is forbidden: forbidden for him. You can not make never nothing forbidden and however be a great scoundrel. And vice versa. To be absolutely rigorous, it's comfortable. Whoever is too much comfortable to think for himself and to be judge of himself settles down to the prohibition. Easy for him. Others instead feel some Commandments inside themself and consider forbidden things that any gentleman does every day, while they feel legit other things that usually are prohibited. Everyone must be guarantor of itself.

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Walking outside, at night, under the silent sky, along a rivulet that runs quietly, it is always something full of mistery, and moves the abyss of the soul...

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Once, he said to her: "You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it. (From "Siddharta")

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I asked you why your eyes
linger in mine
like a chaste star in the sky
in an obscure wave.

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He who has courage and character is always very disquieting for those who stand next to him.