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“Ništa nije bilo, ništa neće biti, sve jeste, sve ima svoje bitisanje i sadašnjost.
Sidarta je govorio sa zanosom, ova svetla misao prožimala ga je dubokom radošću. O, zar nisu sve patnje bile vreme, zar nije sve tegobno u neprijateljsko u svetu nastalo i bilo savladano čim je savladano i vreme, čim se iz misli moglo izbrisati vreme?”
― Hesse Hesse, Siddhartha

“Anyone who wants to be born must first destroy the world.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“L'amore si può mendicare, comprare, regalare, si può trovarlo per caso sulla strada, ma non si può estorcere.”
― Hesse, Siddhartha

“If you observe a person closely enough, you'll end up knowing more about them than they do.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“When we hate a man, we hate in him something that lies within ourselves”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Technically, I don’t know much about music, but since childhood I’ve instinctively understood its expression. I felt the musical sense in me as something natural and innate”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“We must find our dream, and then the path becomes easy, but no dream is everlasting. One replaces another, and we mustn’t cling to any.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“What exists today is not a community, but merely a herd. People gather because they are afraid of each other, and each seeks refuge among their own kind. A herd of bosses, a herd of workers, a herd of intellectuals. And why are they afraid? They are only afraid when they are not at peace with themselves”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“There is no such thing as chance. When someone finds something they truly need, it is not chance that brings it to them, but the person themselves—their own desire and inner necessity lead them to it.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“In the days following my visit to Pistorius, I felt drawn to it all once more, as I realised that a certain joy and strength that had emerged in me after that afternoon—a heightened awareness of myself—was entirely due to the long contemplation of the fire, which was both beneficial and enriching”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“We can only aspire to ourselves, to our own destiny.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“All men are ready to do the impossible when their ideals are threatened. But when a new ideal is announced—a new demand for growth, unsettling and perhaps dangerous—everyone cowers.
When the transformations of the Earth's crust cast aquatic animals onto land and terrestrial animals into the sea, it was the specimens open to any destiny who faced the new and unheard-of, and were able to save their species through new adaptations.”
― Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Oh, it is hard to find that godly path in the midst of this life that we lead, in the midst of such a very contended, very bourgeois, very mindless age, when we are confronted with this architecture, these businesses, these politics, these people! How could I be anything but a Steppenwolf and a surly hermit in the midst of a world full of goals none of which I share, and pleasures none of which I desire!”
― Hesse, Steppenwolf