For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

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Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.

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Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.

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Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.

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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.

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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

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Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.

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The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.

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