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“Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you” Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“what we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.” Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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