“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
― The Solitaire Mystery
― The Solitaire Mystery
“But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!”
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“To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.”
― Man, The Unknown
― Man, The Unknown
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
― The Realm of Possibility
― The Realm of Possibility
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
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