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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
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
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
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves 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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

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