In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Solitude is independence.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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