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“she wanted once more to extract the last sweet drop from this fleeting pleasure.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Then it seems that I, who wanted to watch over you, fell asleep myself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Remember, my dear Govinda, the world of appearances is transitory, the style of our clothes and hair is extremely transitory. Our hair and our bodies are themselves transitory.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to Kamala, three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting and thinking.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“And if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I adore simple pleasures,” said Lord Henry. “They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don’t like scenes, except on the stage.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What I want is information; not useful information, of course; useless information.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.”
― oscar wilde

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
― Oscar Wilde

“For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess,” said Lord Henry, with a bow.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray