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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. - [Eternity] He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness. - [Education] Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. - [Knowledge] When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. - [Insanity] Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. - [Self] I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. - Demian [Books (First Lines)] If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Demian (ch. 6) [Hatred] The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. - Der Steppenwolf, (translated by Basil Creighton), "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" [Comfort] In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree, Siddhartha, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend Govinda. - Siddhartha [Books (First Lines)] Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. - Siddhartha [Words] The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life. - Steppenwolf [Books (First Lines)]
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