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Hermann Hesse
“At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse
“What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Epictetus
“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
Epictetus

Christopher Hitchens
“[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.”
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Jean de La Bruyère
“Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.”
Jean de La Bruyère

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