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Hermann Hesse
“The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation. It cannot be done differently, there is no other way for him who wants to teach. But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Susan  Rowland
“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years apart.”
Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Scott's mind was racing, struggling to comprehend the events unfolding around him. They were talking about disposing of Twinkle like he was a rusty old bike that no-one rode anymore.”
R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

Jerome K. Jerome
“La mancanza di senape rattristò l’equipaggio. Mangiammo il nostro manzo in silenzio. La vita ci sembrava vuota e insignificante.”
Jerome K. Jerome, Tre uomini in barca

Nicholas Sparks
“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

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