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“Quoth Siddhartha: “You know, my dear, that I already as a young man, in those days when we lived with the penitents in the forest, started to distrust teachers and teachings and to turn my back to them. I have stuck with this. Nevertheless, I have had many teachers since then. A beautiful courtesan has been my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant was my teacher, and some gamblers with dice. Once, even a follower of Buddha, traveling on foot, has been my teacher; he sat with me when I had fallen asleep in the forest, on the pilgrimage. I’ve also learned from him, I’m also grateful to him, very grateful. But most of all, I have learned here from this river and from my predecessor, the Ferryman Vasudeva. He was a very simple person, Vasudeva, he was no thinker, but he knew what is necessary just as well as Gotama, he was a perfect man, a saint.””

Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

Ecce Homo • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”

The Return of the King • J.R.R Tolkien

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.”

Book II • Marcus Aurelius

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream  • William Shakespeare