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““They knew everything, the Brahmans and their holy books, they knew everything, they had taken care of everything and of more than everything, the creation of the world, the origin of speech, of food, of inhaling, of exhaling, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods, they knew infinitely much—but was it valuable to know all of this, not knowing that one and only thing, the most important thing, the solely important thing?””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse“That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.”
A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens“Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens“"The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide