“Did not Atman dwell inside him, did not the primal source flow within his own heart?” Siddhartha
"There was seldom any conversation, especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if only in secret." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure. The Trials Of Socrates
For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. Book III
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