What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.