Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a singl… - Hermann Hesse

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

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

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.

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.