In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSELove 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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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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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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