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The quotations of

Hermann Hesse

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter

1877–1962

25 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Time.

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Peter Camenzind (1904)
- Love
Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Demian (1919), p. 94
- Love
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
- Love
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Siddhartha (1922)
- Love
- Philosophy
Love of one’s neighbour is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.
Steppenwolf (1927), PrefaceIn context
- Love

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