Solitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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