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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.

Hermann Hesse

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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
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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