Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the inermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
("Siddhartha")
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For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.Hermann Hesse
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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Nur das Denken, das wir leben, hat einen Wert.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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