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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.

Hermann Hesse

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way

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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