Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Quotes VI

-No teacher could have brought him salvation. That was why he had to go into the world, to lose himself in power, women and money; that was why he had to be a merchant, a dice player, a drinker and a man of property, until the priest and Samana in him were dead.
-The river knows everything.
-There is not such thing as time.
-Siddhartha's previous live were also not in the past, and his death and his return to Brahma are not in the future. Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
-Kamala looked into his eyes. You have grown old, my dear. You have become gray.
-Looking at him she said: now I see that your eyes have also changed. They have become quite different. How do I recognize that you are still Siddhartha? You are Siddhartha and yet you are not like him.  Have you find peace?
-For a long time he looked intently at the pale face, at the tired wrinkles and saw his own face like that, just as white, also dead, and at the same time he saw his face and hers, young, with red lips, with ardent eyes and he was overwhelmed with a feeling of the present and contemporary existence. In this hour he felt more acutely the indestructibleness of every life, the eternity of every moment.
-No, my dear. Why should I be sad?
-Do you not chain him with your love?
-Do you think, my dear friend that anybody is spared this path?
-The consciousness of the unity of all life. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
-Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.
-All the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world.