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Hermann Hesse

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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
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
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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