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Whatever comes your way you must never interfere, because from this moment on your own opinion ceases to count. For that same reason you must go unarmed. You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. You may only search and inquire, never judge. Always remember that.

…you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them. Yes, big things will be done in the human world with your help, wars started, empires founded…

He had to have this book - at any price.
At any price? That was easily said. Even if he had had more to offer this cranky Mr Coreander had given him clearly to understand that he would never sell him a single book. The situation was hopeless.

Some people risk their lives to conquer a mountain peak. No one can really explain why. Others ruin themselves trying to win the heart of a certain person who wants nothing to do with them. Some sacrifice everything for a dream that can never come true. Some think their only hope of happiness lies in being somewhere else. In short, there are as many different passions as there are people.
Bastian's passion was books.