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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Hermann Hesse

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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
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
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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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Path Philosophy

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