Entry 237

Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse


The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse


If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hermann Hesse


It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann Hesse

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.
Hermann Hesse

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
Hermann Hesse

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann Hesse