“Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only image and appearance? Your stone, your tree, are they real?" "This also does not trouble me much," said… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Yes Siddhartha,' he said. 'Is this what you mean: that the river is in all places at once, at its source and where it flows into the sea, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the ocean,… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible places, into… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a blind man,… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Are ideals attainable? Do we live to abolish death? No-we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“There is, in fact, no way back either to the wolf or to the child. From the very start there is no innocence and… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
