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“Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“the heart of long-past days continued to live on, in which, still after centuries, the fears and delights of long-since-vanished generations, frozen to stone, offered resistance to the passage of time.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
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