We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
("Siddhartha")
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.Hermann Hesse
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today.
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Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.
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