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"When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he …"

— Hermann Hesse

Literature1861–1948

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"If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better."

— Abby Sunderland

1993

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— Stéphane Mallarmé

Art1842–1898

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— Arthur Golden

Literature1956

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