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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
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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Book Stars Teaching
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Wisdom is 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.
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Art Life Wisdom
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree

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