When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
HERMANN HESSEIf time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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The river is everywhere.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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