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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Hermann Hesse

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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
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
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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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Afraid People Philosophy
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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