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"No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine."
"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."
"I can think. I can wait. I can fast."
"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect."
"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."
"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose."
"And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world."
"Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!"
"Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering."
"I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills"."
