I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very… — Hermann Hesse

Translation: If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.