A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.