A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEIf I know what love is, it is because of you.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Knowledge 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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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