Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes II

-I knew how to think, to wait, and to fast.
-I am certainly without possessions by of my own free will, so I am not in need.
-He heard much and said little.
-Although he found it so easy to speak to everyone, to live with everyone, to learn from everyone, he was very conscious of the fact that there was something which separated him from them, and this was due to the fact that he had been a Samana.
-He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant.
-Then, he suddenly saw clearly that he was leading a strange life, that he was doing many things that were only a game, that he was quite cheerful and sometimes experienced pleasure, but that real life was flowing past him and did not touch him.
-With his heart, with his real nature, he was not there. His real self wandered elsewhere, far away, wandered on an on invisibly and had nothing to do with his life.
-Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaft that drifts and turns in the air, flatters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel a defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.