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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6112.Siddhartha?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Siddhartha (Modern Library (Hardcover))" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555170m/6112.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6112.Siddhartha?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Siddhartha</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1113469.Hermann_Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2904715?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Those colorful, scented stories, so simple, so obvious- will open your mind and heart. <br/> <br/>I read the Polish translation and I often come back to this novel and make new notes. <br/> <br/>As there is no longer copy right coverage (my learned firends in intellectual property!) its available online. <br/> <br/>[http://www.online-literature.com/hesse/siddhartha/] <br/> <br/>Its a very nice website btw. <br/>For book online try <b>Gutenberg Project</b> as well: <br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Pa...</a> <br/> <br/><i>"[Siddhartha learns:] that one cannot have pleasure without giving it...She taught him that lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused."</i> <br/> <br/><i>"Now, he thought, that all transitory things have slipped away from me again, I stand once more beneath the sun, as I once stood as a small child. Nothing is mine, I know nothing, I possess nothing, I have learned nothing...when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray...now I am beginning again like a child." </i> <br/> <br/><i>"It is a good thing to experience everything oneself...As a child I learned that pleasures of the world and riches were not good. I have known it for a long time, but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my ears, with my heart, with my stomach. It is a good thing that I know this."</i> <br/> <br/><i>"The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth...in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future...Siddhartha the boy, Siddhartha the mature man and Siddhartha the old man [are:] only separated by shadows, not through reality...Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence." </i> <br/> <br/><i>"[A:]ll the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life...then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - perfection." </i> <br/> <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/159485?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>