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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
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
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
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
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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Deep Destroy Violence
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World

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