"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect."
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"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies."
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"Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal."
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"I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world."
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"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."
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"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."
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"To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature."
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"Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods."
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"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
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"One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now."
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"When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists."
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"A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new"
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"Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child."
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"I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like."
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"I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach."
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"You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die."
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"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere."
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"But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes."
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"The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation."
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"A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
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