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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
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
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True

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